SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Dimensions Used in Instruments for QALY Calculation: A Systematic Review.
Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Instruments to assess quality of life in people with mental health problems: a systematic review and dimension analysis of generic, domain- and disease-specific instruments.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2021Pooled it
- Valuing Maintenance of Visual Function in Retinitis Pigmentosa: A Discrete Choice Experiment with Patients and the General Public.PharmacoEconomics - open · 2026Article
- Comparing disease burden of rare diseases with common medical conditions in china: evidence from a national online health survey in 2022.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- How to Assess Health Gains.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comparison of Caregiver and General Population Preferences for Dependency-Related Health States.Applied health economics and health policy · 2025Article
- The top ten benefits of one-stage septic exchange in the management of periprosthetic joint infections.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2024Article
- Valuation of EQ-5D-5L health states from cancer patients' perspective: a feasibility study.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024Article
- Confirmatory analysis of the 13-MD and ranking of its meta-dimensions and items.Health care science · 2024Article
- Cancer population norms using a new value set for the SF-6Dv2 based on the preferences of patients with breast or colorectal cancer in Quebec.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Telehealth-Delivered Program and Accompanying Patients to Enhance the Clinical Condition of Patients Throughout a Liver Transplant: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Quality of life of the Canadian population using the VR-12: population norms for health utility values, summary component scores and domain scores.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Eliciting a value set for the Swedish Capability-Adjusted Life Years instrument (CALY-SWE).Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Comparing clinical decision-making of AI technology to a multi-professional care team in an electronic cognitive behavioural therapy program for depression: protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Vitamin D supplementation for autoimmune hepatitis: A need for further investigation.World journal of hepatology · 2022Article
- Development of a balanced instrument to measure global health-related quality of life: The 13-MD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Economic assessment is of utmost importance in the healthcare decision-making process. The quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) concept provides a rare opportunity to combine two crucial aspects of health, i.e., mortality and morbidity, into a single index to perform cost-utility comparison. Today, many tools are available to measure morbidity in terms of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and a large literature describes how to use them. Knowing their characteristics and development process is a key point for elaborating, adapting, or selecting the most well-suited instrument for further needs. In this aim, we conducted a systematic review on instruments used for QALY calculation, and 46 studies were selected after searches in four databases: Medline EBSCO, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and PubMed. The search procedure was done to identify all relevant publications up to 18 June 2020. We mainly focused on the type of instrument developed (i.e., generic or specific), the number and the nature of dimensions and levels used, the elicitation method and the model selected to determine utility scores, and the instrument and algorithm validation methods. Results show that studies dealing with the development of specific instruments were mostly motivated by the inappropriateness of generic instruments in their field. For the dimensions' and levels' selection, item response theory, Rasch analysis, and literature review were mostly used. Dimensions and levels were validated by methods like the Loevinger H, the standardised response mean, or discussions with experts in the field. The time trade-off method was the most widely used elicitation method, followed by the visual analogue scale. Random effects regression models were frequently used in determining utility scores.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.