Medical Care just published the first US value set for EQ-5D-5L.
Using this value set, decision analysts can summarize EQ-5D-5L responses into QALYs from the perspective of US adults. The paper further demonstrates that US EQ-5D-5L values discriminate better than their EQ-5D-3L predecessor. The value set was based on the largest national valuation study ever conducted (8,222 U.S. respondents from all 50 states and Washington, DC), funded by the US National Cancer Institute and EuroQol Research Foundation, and hosted by the International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR). It has been presented at the EuroQol, ISOQOL and IAHPR meetings and will be presented as a finalist research podium (PP2) at ISPOR on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 1:45PM – 2:45PM. Please join us.
To download the US value set (comma-separated values file; 166kb): CLICK HERE
This CSV file contains the all 3125 EQ-5D-5L responses and nine value sets (i.e., 3125 rows, 10 columns): EQ-5D-5L (EQ), United States (US), Japan (JP), South Korea (KR), Uruguay (UR), the Netherlands (NL), Canada (CD), England (EN), Crosswalk (CROSSWALK), and a revised version of the Netherlands value set (NL2).
On 25 April 2018, Dr. Matthijs Versteegh notified us that the Dutch valuation model included a constant term and that all EQ-5D-5L values were shifted downward by 0.047 QALYs, except for 11111. For example, the lowest EQ-5D-5L value (55555) was shifted from -0.399 to -0.446, but highest EQ-5D-5L value (11111) stayed at 1, extending the range of values. For reference, the revised Dutch values were incorporated into the spreadsheet under NL2 (10th column). The original file (without the 10th column) is one of an online appendices of the Medical Care paper. These files may be downloaded and freely used in health technology assessments and economic evaluations with proper citation of the Medical Care paper.
Please contact Benjamin M Craig (bcraig@usf.edu) for more details.