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.
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.
EQ-5D-5L Value Set for England Study Team Responds to the EEPRU Review
29 November 2018
OHE has published a response to the critique of the EQ-5D-5L value set for England study.
OHE Lunchtime Seminars: Steven Pearson and Janel Hanmer
4 October 2018
OHE will be hosting two lunchtime seminars in October – one on the 22nd with Steven Pearson, ICER, and another on the 31st with Janel Hanmer,…
OHE at the EuroQol Plenary Meeting 2018
2 October 2018
OHE contributed to the organisation and scientific content of the recent EuroQol Plenary Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.
Two New Papers on EQ-5D-5L Valuation in Ireland
21 August 2018
OHE’s Koonal Shah and Nancy Devlin are co-authors on two new papers focusing on the valuation of the EQ-5D-5L in Ireland.
New Journal Article: Directly Eliciting Personal Utility Functions
31 July 2018
A new article in the European Journal of Health Economics describes the ‘personal utility functions’ approach to valuing health
Quality of Life in Long-term Cancer Survivors: Implications for Future Health Technology Assessments in Oncology
3 July 2018
Cancer survival rates have improved dramatically in recent decades due in part to pharmaceutical advances, with a growing range of increasingly effective and targeted medicines being developed, such asimmunotherapies. In the economic modelling of such treatments, the question arises of which utilities should be assigned to patients who show a long-term, durable response.
New Paper in Value in Health: Improving the Quality of Time Trade-Off Data
27 June 2018
This paper demonstrates OHE’s expertise in valuing health outcomes, and its contribution to methods for improving the quality of health valuation data.