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Obtaining EQ-5D-5L utilities from the disease specific Quality of Life Alzheimer’s Disease Scale: Development and results from a mapping study

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Purpose: The Quality of Life Alzheimer’s Disease Scale (QoL-AD) is commonly used to assess disease specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as rated by patients and their carers. For cost-effectiveness analyses, utilities based on the EQ-5D are often required. We report a new mapping algorithm to obtain EQ-5D indices when only QoL-AD data are available.

Methods: Different statistical models to estimate utility directly, or responses to individual EQ-5D questions (response mapping) from QoL-AD, were trialled for patient-rated and proxy-rated questionnaires. Model performance was assessed by root mean square error and mean absolute error.

Results: The response model using multinomial regression including age and sex, performed best in both the estimation dataset and an independent dataset.

Conclusions: The recommended mapping algorithm allows researchers for the first time to estimate EQ-5D values from QoL-AD data, enabling cost-utility analyses using datasets where the QoL-AD but no utility measures were collected.

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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s11136-020-02670-8

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University of Oxford
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MSD
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Nuffield Department of Population Health
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0000-0003-3464-3867
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MSD
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MSD
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University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
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Psychiatry
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0000-0002-2394-5299
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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MSD
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ORCID:
0000-0003-2842-2195


Publisher:
Springer
Journal:
Quality of Life Research More from this journal
Volume:
30
Issue:
2021
Pages:
867–879
Publication date:
2020-10-17
Acceptance date:
2020-09-13
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EISSN:
1573-2649
ISSN:
0962-9343


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1133140
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2020-09-21

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