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.
Adjusting Patient Case Mix to Compare PROMs across Providers
10 December 2013
The model reported in this publication aims at valid comparisons across providers, despite variations in patient populations. A number of arguments support the attractive notion of…
OHE Consulting Offers New Services in Patient-Reported Outcomes
4 December 2013
OHE Consulting is now offering our clients advice and analytical services on health outcomes and the use of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) data, building on the extensive…
Mike Herdman Appointed as OHE’s Head of Health Outcomes
25 November 2013
OHE’s extensive expertise in health outcomes will be further enhanced with the addition of Mike. OHE is delighted to announce the appointment of Mike Herdman as…
Assessing Use of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMs Programme
12 November 2013
This research addresses two critical issues about the use of the EQ-VAS. A paper recently published in Quality of Life Research by OHE’s Nancy Devlin and…
Groundbreaking EQ-5D Project Launched in the United Arab Emirates
5 November 2013
This project explores how existing valuation approaches can be adapted to the UAE culture. OHE’s Professor Nancy Devlin and Koonal Shah have been working on-site in…
Initial Findings from Research on an EQ-5D-5L Value Set for England
24 September 2013
Four papers presented at the EuroQol Plenary discussed preliminary findings. As reported earlier, OHE’s Prof Nancy Devlin and Prof Ben van Hout of the University of…
Special Issue of EJHE Examines Progress on Refinement of the EQ-5D
13 August 2013
Just released online [open access] is a special issue of the European Journal of Health Economics on the development of new research methods for the valuation…
OHE at iHEA: HTA in Emerging Markets, Personalised Medicine, EQ-5D mapping
6 August 2013
OHE was involved in several sessions at the 9th World Congress of the International Heath Economics Association (iHEA). Prof Adrian Towse, OHE’s Director, and Prof Lou…
Measuring the Relationship Between Health and Subjective Well-being
24 July 2013
Significantly increases of wealth and health in the Western world over the past 50 years do not appear to have produced an equivalent increase in societal…