Variations in Patients' Overall Assessment of Their Health Across and Within Disease Groups Using the EQ-5D Questionnaire: Protocol for a Longitudinal Study in the Swedish National Quality Registers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

EQ-5D is one of the most commonly used questionnaires to measure health-related quality of life. It is included in many of the Swedish National Quality Registers (NQRs). EQ-5D health states are usually summarized using "values" obtained from members of the general public, a majority of whom are healthy. However, an alternative, which remains to be studied in detail, is the potential to use patients' self-reported overall health on the visual analog scale (VAS) as a means of capturing experience-based perspective.

Objective

The aim of this study is to assess EQ VAS as a valuation method with an experience-based perspective through comparison of its performance across and within patient groups, and with that of the general population in Sweden.

Methods

Data o

SUBMITTER: Teni FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8433865 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature