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EQ-SD: a measure of health status from the EuroQol Group

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Rabin, Rosalind, Charro, Frank de·2001·Annals of Medicine

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Established in 1987, the EuroQol Group initially comprised a network of international, multilingual and multidisciplinary researchers from seven centres in Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Nowadays, the Group comprises researchers from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Slovenia, Spain, the USA and Zimbabwe. The process of shared development and local experimentation resulted in EQ-5D, a generic measure of health status that provides a simple descriptive profile and a single index value that can be used in the clinical and economic evaluation of health care and in population health surveys. Currently, EQ-5D is being widely used in different countries by clinical researchers in a variety of clinical areas. EQ-5D is also being used by eight out of the first 10 of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies listed in the annual report of Pharma Business (November/December 1999). Furthermore, EQ-5D is one of the handful of measures recommended for use in cost-effectiveness analyses by the Washington Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. EQ-5D has now been translated into most major languages with the EuroQol Group closely monitoring the process.

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  • The reduction in symptoms and improvement in quality of life, as evidenced in the authors' study by the change in scores on the ThyPro and EQ5D5L scales, provide objective evidence of benefit.

    “The reduction it symptoms and improvement in quality of life, as evidenced in our study by the change in scores on the ThyPro and EQ5D5L (29, 30) scales provide objective evidence of benefit”

    From Natural desiccated thyroid for the treatment of hypothyroidism? (2024) · cites this paper as [29]

    The EQ-5D self-report section describes an instrument for rating health-related quality of life. The EQ-5D self-classifier section shows three response levels per dimension, not the cited EQ-5D-5L version. This citation is attached to the scales, so the citing authors’ reported improvement is not being judged as a finding of this source. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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    “The systematic review followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement guidelines.”

    From Productivity outcomes from chronic pain management interventions in the working age population; a systematic review (2024) · cites this paper as [28]

    The Aim and Valuing health states sections describe the EQ-5D health-status measure, not the conduct of a systematic review. Searches for PRISMA, its expanded name, and systematic-review reporting guidelines found no passage addressing whether the citing review followed those guidelines. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Authors
Rabin, R., & Charro, F. D.
Affiliations
Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
Charro, Frank de
Venue
Annals of Medicine
Published
2001-01
Volume
33
Issue
5
Pages
337-343
ISSN
  • 0785-3890 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2060
OpenAlex
W2153836018
Cited by
5,613
References
14
Citations by year
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FWCI
42.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annals of Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
Keywords
EQ-5D, health status measurement, generic health-related quality of life, cost-effectiveness analysis, health service evaluation, multilingual translation
MeSH terms
Europe, Health Status, Humans, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reference Standards, Translations, Global Health

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