ArticlePharmacoEconomics2022
Valuing the Quality-of-Life Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) Instrument for Quality Assessment and Economic Evaluation.
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- The Evolving Landscape of Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: A Systematic Review.PharmacoEconomics · 2025Pooled it
- Discrete Choice Experiments in Health State Valuation: A Systematic Review of Progress and New Trends.Applied health economics and health policy · 2023Pooled it
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- Developing an Australian Value Set for the COCOON Carer Quality-of-Life Measure for Use in Economic Evaluations.PharmacoEconomics · 2026Article
- A Review of the Application of Generic Preference-Based Instruments with Older People Across Care Settings.Applied health economics and health policy · 2026Review
- Determining the quality of life-aged care consumer threshold to identify good quality of life in older adults in long-term care.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- A new health economic measure for improving the health and wellbeing of older Australians in subacute care settings: a study protocol.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Prevalence of Hearing, Vision and Cognitive Impairment and Impact in Older Adults in Home Care: A Study Protocol.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Protocol for a Pre-Post Field Trial of a Home Hearing and Vision Care Program for Older Australians With Diverse Cognitive Abilities and Hearing and/or Vision Impairment.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Quality of life for middle and older aged people with chronic conditions in primary care: a cross-sectional study.BMC primary care · 2026Observational
- Validation of a quality-of-life measure for older people using urgent and emergency care.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2025Article
- Quality of care experience- aged care consumers (QCE-ACC) in residential aged care: an assessment of construct validity.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Maximising Embedded Pharmacists in AGed CAre Medication Advisory Committees (MEGA-MAC): protocol for implementing Australia's new guiding principles for medication management in residential aged care facilities using knowledge brokers and a national quality improvement collaborative.Implementation science : IS · 2025Article
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- A framework for extending the health-related quality adjusted life year by combining instruments.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2025Article
- Developing a utility value set for the Gambling Quality of Life Scale-Brief (GQoLS-Brief) using a discrete choice experiment.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Protocol for a Field Trial of a Hearing and Vision Support Intervention for People Living in Long-Term Care in Australia.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Quality of life and quality of care experience in Australian residential aged care: a retrospective cohort study of 1,772 residents.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Appropriateness of the EQ-HWB for Use in Residential Aged Care: A Proxy Perspective.The patient · 2024Article
- Reliability of the quality of life-aged care consumers (QOL-ACC) and EQ-5D-5L among older people using aged care services at home.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis paper reports on the valuation of the classification system for the Quality-of-Life Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) instrument using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) with duration with a large sample of older people receiving aged care services.
methodsA DCE with 160 choice sets of two quality-of-life state-survival duration combinations blocked into 20 survey versions, with eight choice sets in each version, was designed and administered through an on-line survey to older Australians receiving aged care services in home and via interviewer facilitation with older people in residential aged care settings. Model specifications investigating preferences with respect to survival duration and interactions between QOL-ACC dimension levels were estimated. Utility weights were developed, with estimated coefficients transformed to the 0 (being dead) to 1 (full health) scale to generate a value set suitable for application in quality assessment and for the calculation of quality-adjusted life-years for use in economic evaluation.
resultsIn total, 953 older people completed the choice experiment with valid responses. The estimation results from econometric model specifications indicated that utility increased with survival duration and decreased according to quality-of-life impairment levels. An Australian value set (range - 0.56 to 1.00) was generated for the calculation of utilities for all QOL-ACC states.
conclusionThe QOL-ACC is unique in its focus on measuring and valuing quality of life from the perspective of older people themselves, thereby ensuring that the preferences of aged care service users are the primary focus for quality assessment and economic evaluation.
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