How the EQ-5D utilities are derived matters in Chinese diabetes patients: a comparison based on different EQ-5D scoring functions for China.

Chen-Wei PanRuo-Yu ZhangNan LuoJun-Yi HeRui-Jie LiuXiao-Hua YingPei Wang

Published in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2020)

The 3L2014 utilities is more discriminative than the 3L2018 utilities; and the two c5L utilities have no worse discriminative power compared with the 5L utilities. The choice of the approach to calculating the EQ-5D utilities is likely to affect QALY estimates.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
type diabetes
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
cardiovascular disease
weight loss