Abstract
Objectives Health valuation studies enhance economic evaluations of treatments by estimating the value of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) includes a 29-item short-form HRQOL measure, the PROMIS-29.
Methods To value PROMIS-29 responses on a quality-adjusted life-year scale, we conducted a national survey (N = 7557) using quota sampling based on the US 2010 Census. Based on 541 paired comparisons with over 350 responses each, pair-specific probabilities were incorporated into a weighted least-squared estimator.
Results All losses in HRQOL influenced choice; however, respondents valued losses in physical function, anxiety, depression, sleep, and pain more than those in fatigue and social functioning.
Conclusions This article introduces a novel approach to valuing HRQOL for economic evaluations using paired comparisons and provides a tool to translate PROMIS-29 responses into quality-adjusted life-years.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 846-853 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Value in Health |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2014 |
Funding
Source of financial support: Funding support for this research was provided by a National Cancer Institute R01 grant (1R01CA160104). Ron D. Hays was supported in part by grants from the National Institute on Aging (P30-AG021684) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (P20MD000182).
Keywords
- discrete choice experiments
- patient-reported outcomes
- quality-adjusted life-years
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Policy
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
