Health Condition Impacts in a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey Vary Substantially by Preference-Based Health Index.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Many cost-utility analyses rely on generic utility measures for estimates of disease impact. Commonly used generic preference-based indexes may generate different absolute estimates of disease burden despite sharing anchors of dead at 0 and full health at 1.0.

Objective

We compare the impact of 16 prevalent chronic health conditions using 6 utility-based indexes of health and a visual analog scale.

Design

Data were from the National Health Measurement Study (NHMS), a cross-sectional telephone survey of 3844 adults aged 35 to 89 years in the United States.

Main outcome measures

The NHMS included the EuroQol-5D-3L, Health and Activities Limitation Index (HALex), Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2) and Mark 3 (HUI3), preference-based scoring for the SF

SUBMITTER: Hanmer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4856155 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature