OBJECTIVES The EQ-5D is a five-dimension multi-attribute questionnaire widely used to calculate quality-adjusted life-year scores. We aimed to describe patients with early arthritis (EA) and EQ-5D < 0, a state worse than death, at baseline and over 2 years and determine aspects of EA associated with a negative score. METHODS EQ-5D scores for 813 patients were longitudinally assessed over 24 m...

BACKGROUND Quality of life is recognized as an important additional outcome measure in clinical trials and health economic evaluations. The EQ-5D is an important generic health outcome instrument often used for economic evaluations as a complement with disease-specific outcome measures. In this study quality of life data was assessed using the EQ-5D-Y (new EQ-5D version for children and adolesc...

Generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments, such as EQ-5D, are important tools in economic evaluations for measuring disease burden and generating quality-adjusted years (QALYs). Our goal was to compare measurement properties two versions this instrument, the EQ-5D-3L (3L) EQ-5D-5L (5L) atopic dermatitis (AD). We conducted a multicentre cross-sectional survey Hungary, involving ...

Age (years) 32.26 (5.58) 27.19 (5.17) −2.99 .005⁎ Education (years) 12.63 (1.61) 14.60 (2.21) 3.19 .003⁎⁎ Estimated FSIQ 102.24 (14.81) 112.10 (10.22) 2.33 .03⁎ Social EQ 5.11 (3.40) 7.79 (2.27) 2.96 .001⁎ Cognitive EQ 9.89 (6.33) 15.63 (9.89) 3.01 b .001⁎⁎ Emotional EQ 8.89 (4.15) 14.00 (4.19) 3.77 .001⁎⁎ Total EQ 35.47 (11.88) 51.21 (13.06) 3.89 b .001⁎⁎ QIDS 11.37 (5.71) 4.23 (2.65) −4.75 b ...

BACKGROUND Economic evaluations of healthcare interventions increasingly measure outcomes using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). The SF-6D and the EQ-5D are alternative ways of generating utility scores for use in QALY estimations, but it is unclear which is most sensitive to change in psychiatric symptom severity. There are also limited data on the sensitivity of these measures to changes ...

abstract in order to assess the environmental impact of agricultural activity, the long-term sustainability should be considered. in order to achieve solutions to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in the production of rainfed sunflower, this assessment was conducted in the north east of iran. four production methods, i.e. conventional tillage (ct), tow reduced tillages (rt1and rt2)...

BACKGROUND Although a five level version of the widely-used EuroQol 5 dimensions (EQ-5D) instrument has been developed, population norms are not yet available for Australia to inform the future valuation of health in economic evaluations. The aim of this study was to estimate HrQOL normative values for the EQ-5D-5L preference-based measure in a large, randomly selected, community sample in Sout...