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.
OHE in the BMJ: Reforming the Cancer Drug Fund, and Reviving the PROMs Programme
10 December 2014
On 28th November 2014 the BMJ published the Editorial “Reforming the Cancer Drug Fund”. In this editorial, Buxton, Longworth, Raftery, Sculpher and Towse argue that the…
OHE at ISPOR Europe: Presentations
19 November 2014
The OHE gave the following presentations at ISPOR 17th Annual European Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
OHE Seminar Launches ‘An EQ-5D-5L Value Set for England’
13 November 2014
At an OHE seminar on October 30th, OHE’s Professor Devlin and Professor van Hout from University of Sheffield jointly presented the key results from their study…
OHE’s Devlin Co-Author on Prize-Winning EQ-5D Paper
14 October 2014
An OHE co-authored journal article that analyses variations in hospital performance in improving patient health has been awarded the prize by EuroQol for ‘best scientific paper’…
Generating EQ-5D-5L Values in the UAE with TTO and DCE: Initial Results
16 September 2014
As reported in this blog in November 2013, OHE’s Professor Nancy Devlin and Koonal Shah have been working on-site in Abu Dhabi to establish a new programme to…
What Determines the Shape of an EQ-5D Index Distribution?
12 August 2014
In a new OHE Research Paper, OHE’s Nancy Devlin and Yan Feng join David Parkin from King’s College London in analysing characteristics of the EQ-5D indexing…
Variations in Outcome and Costs in NHS Hospitals: Recent Report
6 February 2014
Using innnovative econometric techniques, this report explores whether and how hospital outcomes and resource use are related for four common procedures.
OHE at HESG: Value-based Assessment in the UK; Developing the EQ-5D-5L
23 January 2014
OHE’s contributions focused on approaches to implementing UK value-based assessment and the details of creating an EQ-5D-5L value set for England. The Health Economists’ Study Group…
What Determines the Shape of an EQ-5D Index Distribution?
1 August 2014
The EQ-5D is one of the most used health-related quality of life instruments worldwide. Understanding the characteristics of its underlying data is essential. In this paper,…