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EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population
BACKGROUND: Reference values are a helpful tool to facilitate comparisons of sampled values against a specified reference population. The aim is to describe the health profile and to provide visual analogue scale (EQ VAS) and utility reference values for the EQ-5D-5L from a normative sample of the g...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7937199/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33676523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01719-7 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Reference values are a helpful tool to facilitate comparisons of sampled values against a specified reference population. The aim is to describe the health profile and to provide visual analogue scale (EQ VAS) and utility reference values for the EQ-5D-5L from a normative sample of the general elderly population (65+) in Germany. METHODS: We analysed a sub-set of data from the German EQ-5D-5L valuation study using self-reported information based on EQ-5D-5L. We examined the share of respondents in each severity level per dimension as well as means, standard deviations (SD) and 95% confidence intervals for the index and EQ VAS values stratified by age groups and gender. Age was categorised in four groups (65–69, 70–74, 75–79 and > 79 years) to facilitate a more detailed examination of age-related health-related quality of life (HRQoL). RESULTS: The average index and EQ VAS scores were 0.84 (SD 0.22) and 73.2 (SD 18.5), respectively. In total, 21.4% reported no problems in all dimensions. With higher age, health problems were reported more frequently, which, in turn, lead to monotonically decreasing index and EQ VAS values. Overall, men reported fewer problems than women and this difference was largest beyond the age of 80. CONCLUSION: HRQoL in the oldest old appears to be less stable and differs from the young elderly. However, the conventional age categorisation of earlier population norms studies seems to mask these differences. Hence, the more detailed provision of EQ-5D-5L reference values for the elderly population seems helpful for future German studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-79371992021-03-09 EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population Marten, Ole Greiner, Wolfgang Health Qual Life Outcomes Research BACKGROUND: Reference values are a helpful tool to facilitate comparisons of sampled values against a specified reference population. The aim is to describe the health profile and to provide visual analogue scale (EQ VAS) and utility reference values for the EQ-5D-5L from a normative sample of the general elderly population (65+) in Germany. METHODS: We analysed a sub-set of data from the German EQ-5D-5L valuation study using self-reported information based on EQ-5D-5L. We examined the share of respondents in each severity level per dimension as well as means, standard deviations (SD) and 95% confidence intervals for the index and EQ VAS values stratified by age groups and gender. Age was categorised in four groups (65–69, 70–74, 75–79 and > 79 years) to facilitate a more detailed examination of age-related health-related quality of life (HRQoL). RESULTS: The average index and EQ VAS scores were 0.84 (SD 0.22) and 73.2 (SD 18.5), respectively. In total, 21.4% reported no problems in all dimensions. With higher age, health problems were reported more frequently, which, in turn, lead to monotonically decreasing index and EQ VAS values. Overall, men reported fewer problems than women and this difference was largest beyond the age of 80. CONCLUSION: HRQoL in the oldest old appears to be less stable and differs from the young elderly. However, the conventional age categorisation of earlier population norms studies seems to mask these differences. Hence, the more detailed provision of EQ-5D-5L reference values for the elderly population seems helpful for future German studies. BioMed Central 2021-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7937199/ /pubmed/33676523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01719-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Marten, Ole Greiner, Wolfgang EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population |
title | EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population |
title_full | EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population |
title_fullStr | EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population |
title_full_unstemmed | EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population |
title_short | EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population |
title_sort | eq-5d-5l reference values for the german general elderly population |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7937199/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33676523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01719-7 |
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