The use of the EQ-5D preference-based health status measure in adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Evidence supported validity, reliability and responsiveness of the EQ-5D in Type 2 diabetes. EQ-5D index scores associated with Type 2 diabetes and various complications can be useful for modelling health outcomes in economic evaluations of health programmes for Type 2 diabetes.

Primary Care Medical Home Experience and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adult Medicaid Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

“…With regard to HRQOL, the average index score was 0.67, identical to the expected EQ-5D value among a general sample of adult patients with type 2 diabetes. 11 Few patients in our All bolded items are statistically significant at the p<.05 or greater level. Modmoderate; Sevsevere; Ex/VGexcellent/very good sample had problems with self-care activities, while most patients had problems with pain.…”

“…The effect size of 0.06 points for total medical home score on HRQOL is more than half of the 0.10-point difference observed between patients with no complications and those with retinopathy, and is about one-third of the 0.18-point difference associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain. 11 Thus, changes in the delivery of primary care may have clinically meaningful benefits to the quality of life of patients with diabetes.…”

“…Duration of diabetes was included because of its negative association with HRQOL that likely indicates disease progression or severity. 11 Patient-reported insulin use was included because some studies have observed that insulin use is associated with HRQOL [25][26][27] and because it may further help account for disease severity.…”

Using guided individualised feedback to review self-reported quality of life in health and its importance

“…The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends the EQ-5D as the preferred UK measure of health-related QoL in adults (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2008), and its validity in assessing chronic illnesses is confirmed (Dyer, Goldsmith, Sharples, & Buxton, 2010;Janssen, Lubetkin, Sekhobo, & Pickard, 2011;Pickard et al, 2008).…”

EuroQol (EQ-5D-5L) Validity in Assessing the Quality of Life in Adults With Asthma: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

“…Oga et al [11] and McTaggart-Cowan et al [13] reported a high ceiling effect (59% and 50% of the sample with the maximum score, respectively) questioning the usefulness of the EQ-5D in these patients. In fact, limitations related to the high ceiling effect have also been consistently reported for the EQ-5D in other chronic conditions, such as COPD [14], osteoarthritis [14], diabetes [15] and coronary heart disease [16].…”