EQ-5D and PROMs

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are used to evaluate health interventions, providing a measure of an individual’s health status. The EQ-5D is a PROM recommended by NICE for measuring health benefits. It considers 5 dimensions of health and can be used across various diseases.

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5 Things You Should Do with EQ-5D Data

29 January 2016

Professor Nancy Devlin outlines her top 5 recommendations for anyone collecting or reporting EQ-5D data. Written by Professor Nancy Devlin, Director of Research at OHE and…

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Important Aspects of Health Not Captured by EQ-5D: Views of the UK General Public

12 January 2016

This Research Paper reports the views of 179 members of the UK general public about important aspects of health that they consider to be missing from the five dimensions of the EQ-5D instrument.

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The Distribution of the EQ-5D-5L Index in Patient Populations

1 October 2016

EQ-5D data are often summarised by an EQ-5D index, whose distribution for its original version, the EQ-5D-3L, often shows two distinct groups in patient populations, arising…

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OHE at the Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) Meeting, Manchester 2016

4 January 2016

A summary of OHE’s activity at the 2016 winter HESG meeting, Manchester, 6-8th January.

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New Methods for Modelling EQ-5D-5L Value Sets: An Application to English Data

1 January 2016

This paper provides details of how the EQ-5D-5L value set was derived, focusing on the methods used to model the stated preference data. Results for different…

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Cost-per-QALY in the US and Britain

28 December 2015

Professor Weinstein compares the use of cost-per-QALY approaches in the UK and the US. Britain has got it closer to right, but may go a little…

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Just Published: Systematic Review of PRO Use in Paediatric Populations with Vaccine-Preventable Infectious Diseases

15 December 2015

This paper reports the results of a systematic review of the use and quality of Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) measures in paediatric populations with vaccine-preventable infectious…

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New OHE Publication Compares 3L and 5L Versions of EQ-5D as Measures of General Population Health

10 November 2015

New publication by OHE’s Yan Feng, Nance Devlin and Mike Herdman in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, comparing the 3L and 5L versions of EQ-5D…

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OHE and University of Sheffield to Collaborate on Research to Re-model the UK Value Set (‘MVH’) for EQ-5D

1 September 2015

OHE, in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, has been awarded a research grant from the EuroQol Research Foundation to revisit the Measurement and Valuation of…