Mean Rank, Equipercentile, and Regression Mapping of World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief (WHOQOL-BREF) to EuroQoL 5 Dimensions 5 Levels (EQ-5D-5L) Utilities
| Autor: | Hwee Lin Wee, Yin Bun Cheung, Eric Yin Hao Khoo, Khung Keong Yeo, Kok Joon Chong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Gerontology
Adult Male Cost-Benefit Analysis Health Status World Health Organization World health 03 medical and health sciences Random Allocation Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) EQ-5D Surveys and Questionnaires Health Status Indicators Humans Computer Simulation 030212 general & internal medicine Health related quality of life Whoqol bref Singapore 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Rank (computer programming) Reproducibility of Results Regression Preference Quality of Life Regression Analysis Female 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 38(3) |
| ISSN: | 1552-681X |
| Popis: | Existing methods to link preference-based and profile-based health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires have their limitations. Hence, we developed a new mapping method (the mean rank method, MRM) and applied it to map the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) to the EuroQoL 5 Dimensions 5 Levels (EQ-5D-5L). We then compared the new MRM with current methods; i.e., regression-mapped (OLS method) and equipercentile method (EPM).Singapore residents, aged ≥21 y, were recruited from the general population and 2 outpatient clinics in acute care hospitals. Performance of the MRM was evaluated using both simulation and split-sample validation ( n = 658 in training and n = 657 in validation samples). Using the training sample, we derived 3 sets of mapped EQ-5D-5L utilities based on MRM, OLS method and EPM. Using simulation and the validation sample, we compared the performance of the mapping methods in terms of distribution parameters, mean utility by strata, association with health covariates, and prediction errors at the individual level, among others.The WHOQOL-BREF Physical Health domain is the only domain significantly associated with EQ-5D-5L utilities. Simulation showed that MRM more accurately reproduced the variance and percentiles of the distribution of the observed utilities than did the OLS method or EPM. OLS method tended to underestimate the mean utility of good health states, overestimate the mean utility of poor health states, and underestimate the association with covariates. An analysis of validation sample gave similar results.In scenarios similar to the mapping of WHOQOL-BREF to the EQ-5D-5L, the MRM outperformed the OLS method and EPM in important-though not all-aspects. The simplicity and reproducibility of the MRM makes it an attractive alternative to current methods. |
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