EQ-5D Value Sets Inventory, Comparative Review and User Guide
Rosalind Rabin, Frank de Charro, Agota Szende 1.1 Purpose of this booklet Governments and healthcare funders worldwide are making increasing use of economic evaluation to inform priority setting in health care. For various reasons, cost benefit analysis i
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EQ-5D Value Sets: Inventory, Comparative Review and User Guide Edited by
AGOTA SZENDE Covance Market Access Services, Leeds, U.K.
MARK OPPE Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and
NANCY DEVLIN City University, London, U.K.
On behalf of: The EuroQol Group’s Task Force on Value Sets
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ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-5510-2 (HB) 978-1-4020-5510-2 (HB) 1-4020-5511-0 (e-book) 978-1-4020-5511-9 (e-book)
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For Alan Williams, whose intellect and wisdom continues to inspire us, and to whom each of the authors are deeply indebted.
EuroQol Group x
The EuroQol Group is a network of international multidisciplinary researchers committed to the measurement of health-related quality of life. The EuroQol Group originally consisted of researchers from Europe, but nowadays includes members from North America, Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The Group is responsible for the development of EQ-5D, a preference-based measure of health-related quality of life.
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The EQ-5D self-report questionnaire consists of the EQ-5D descriptive system that measures health-related quality of life on 5 dimensions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression) and the EQ VAS – a 20 cm vertical visual analogue scale that generates a self-rating of health-related quality of life. EQ-5D is widely used in clinical trials, observational studies, and other health surveys.
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The EuroQol Group has two primary research interests. One focuses on empirical work using EQ-5D, and the other focuses on methodological work to develop EQ-5D.
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The EuroQol Group is a “living” organization that, through its members, continuously conducts research using EQ-5D. Research areas include valuation and population studies, experimenting with the EQ-5D descriptive system, computerized applications, interpretation of EQ-5D ratings, and social inequalities in health status measurement.
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The EuroQol Group’s website (www.euroqol.org) contains information about the EuroQol Group, membership and research activities, details of EQ-5D development and current status.
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction Rosalind Rabin, Frank de Charro, Agota Szende
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2. Comparative review of Time Trade-Off value sets Agota Szende, Mark Oppe, Frank de Charro
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3. Comparative review of Visual Analogue Scale value sets Mark Oppe, Agota Szende, Frank de Charro
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