EQ-5D-5L Health-State Values for the Mexican Population.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To generate a value set for the Mexican adult general population to support and facilitate the inclusion of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) into the health technology assessment process of the Mexican healthcare authorities.

Methods

A representative sample of the Mexican adult population stratified by age, sex and socio-economic status was used. Following version 2.0 of the EuroQol EQ-5D-5L valuation protocol, trained interviewers guided participants in completing composite time trade-off (cTTO) and discrete-choice experiment (DCE) tasks included in the EQ-VT software. Generalized least squares, Tobit and Bayesian models were used for cTTO data. The choice of value set model was based on criteria that included: theoretical considerations, parsimony, logical ord

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez-Delgado C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8545780 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature