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.
Professor Nancy Devlin appointed as OHE Senior Visiting Fellow
22 May 2019
Professor Nancy Devlin has recently been awarded an honorary position at OHE as a Senior Visiting Fellow.
What Outcomes are Important in Student Mental Health and Wellbeing?
2 May 2019
The Student Mental Health Research Network (SMaRteN), in which OHE is a collaborator, is conducting research to find out which outcome measures are most useful in…
Adult Versus Adolescent Preferences for EQ-5D-Y Health States
15 April 2019
Koonal Shah gave a webinar for the International Health Economics Association on the topic of adult versus adolescent preferences for EQ-5D-Y health states.
Can We Really Compare and Aggregate Patient-reported Outcomes Between People and Settings?
11 April 2019
A new OHE Research Paper considers whether we can compare and aggregate patient-reported outcome (PRO) data between people and settings. The paper is authored by Nancy…
Quality of Life and Rare Disease: Lessons from Spinal Muscular Atrophy
2 April 2019
The measurement of quality of life in the context of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is challenging. This is because the disease is experienced by children and…
Generating Preference-based Values for the EQ-5D-Y to Support Its Use in HTA
31 January 2019
OHE’s Koonal Shah and Oliver Rivero-Arias presented at a NICE Technical Forum on the topic of valuing health in children and adolescents.
Valuing EQ-5D-Y Health States Using a Discrete Choice Experiment: Do Adult and Adolescent Preferences Differ?
7 January 2019
This Research Paper describes a study examining adolescent and adult responses to a discrete choice experiment (DCE) containing EQ-5D-Y health states in order to determine whether…
A Note on the Relationship Between Age and Health-related Quality of Life Assessment
12 December 2018
A new OHE-authored paper on the relationship between age and health-related quality of life has been published in Quality of Life Research.
New NICE Position Statement – 5L Value Set Still ‘On Hold’
29 November 2018
NICE has issued a new position statement regarding the use of the EQ-5D-5L value set in evidence submitted to its HTA process.