What is the best approach to adopt for identifying the domains for a new measure of health, social care and carer-related quality of life to measure quality-adjusted life years? Application to the development of the EQ-HWB
| Autor: | Rosemary Lovett, John Brazier, Bhash Naidoo, Janice Connell, Juan Carlos Rejon-Parrilla, Stacey Rand, Karen C. Jones, Clara Mukuria, Tessa Peasgood, Nancy Devlin, Jill Carlton, Aki Tsuchiya, Donna Rowen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cost-Benefit Analysis Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Applied psychology Psychological intervention Extending the QALY project Domain selection Social support QALY Quality of life (healthcare) Surveys and Questionnaires Humans PROM Original Paper Health economics Cost–benefit analysis Social care Health Policy Stakeholder Social Support Quality-adjusted life year Caregivers Economic evaluation Quality of Life Measuring and valuing health Quality-Adjusted Life Years Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The European Journal of Health Economics |
| ISSN: | 1618-7598 |
| Popis: | Economic evaluation combines costs and benefits to support decision-making when assessing new interventions using preference-based measures to measure and value benefits in health or health-related quality of life. These health-focused instruments have limited ability to capture wider impacts on informal carers or outcomes in other sectors such as social care. Sector-specific instruments can be used but this is problematic when the impact of an intervention straddles different sectors.An alternative approach is to develop a generic preference-based measure that is sufficiently broad to capture important cross-sector outcomes. We consider the options for the selection of domains for a cross-sector generic measure including how to identify domains, who should provide information on the domains and how this should be framed. Beyond domain identification, considerations of criteria and stakeholder needs are also identified.This paper sets out the case for an approach that relies on the voice of patients, social care users and informal carers as the main source of domains and describes how the approach was operationalised in the ‘Extending the QALY’ project which developed the new measure, the EQ-HWB (EQ health and wellbeing instrument). We conclude by discussing the strengths and limitations of this approach. The new measure should be sufficiently generic to be used to consistently evaluate health and social care interventions, yet also sensitive enough to pick up important changes in quality of life in patients, social care users and carers. |
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