Nationally Representative Quality-of-Life Weights

全国代表性的生活质量权重

• 批准号: 6922328
• 负责人: John A Nyman
• 金额: $ 12.53万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6922328
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; data collection methodology /evaluation; health care service planning; health services research tag; health surveys; human data; human morbidity; quality of life; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Currently, no information exists on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of a nationally representative sample of the US population. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is the first survey to contain a question that would allow for the calculation of HRQOL weights for a nationally representative sample of almost 23,000 Americans. We propose to use the visual analogue scale (VAS) question from the MEPS HC- 039 2000 Full Year Population Characteristics, released November, 2002, and a time trade-off derived tariff of weights for the EuroQol to estimate representative HRQOL weights for the US population by demographic characteristic and by health status. Providing HRQOL weights by demographic characteristic will enable cost-utility analysts more accurately to calculate quality adjusted life year (QALY) changes because nationally representative US baseline information would now be available. Providing HRQOL weights for the standard self-reported health status question ("Would you say that your health today in general is: (A) excellent, (B) very good, (C) good, (D) fair, (F) poor") would increase the usefulness of the large, population surveys (the CPS, SIPP, Health and Retirement Survey, etc.) that ask a self-reported health-status question, but obtain no information of HRQOL. If a researcher were investigating some policy change using any of these surveys, the availability of representative HRQOL weights would allow him/ her to calculate not only the mortality implications, but also the morbidity implications in a way that could be combined to arrive at the QALY implications of the policy change. There would be a number of other uses for these weights. For example, if this information were collected and presented periodically, it maybe used to characterize how the health of the US population was changing over time.

描述（由申请人提供）：目前，没有关于美国人口中具有全国代表性样本的健康相关生活质量（HRQOL）的信息。医疗支出小组调查（MEPS）是第一个包含一个问题的调查，该问题将允许为全国代表性的近23,000名美国人计算HRQOL权重。我们建议使用2002年11月发布的MEPS HC- 039 2000年全年人口特征中的视觉模拟量表（VAS）问题，以及EuroQol的时间权衡衍生权重，根据人口统计学特征和健康状况估计美国人口的代表性HRQOL权重。根据人口统计学特征提供HRQOL权重将使成本效用分析人员能够更准确地计算质量调整生命年（QALY）变化，因为现在可以获得具有全国代表性的美国基线信息。为标准的自我报告健康状况问题(“你会说你今天的健康总体上是：(A)优秀，(B)非常好，(C)好，（D)一般，(F)差”）提供HRQOL权重，将增加大型人口调查（CPS， SIPP，健康和退休调查等）的有用性，这些调查要求自我报告健康状况问题，但没有获得HRQOL的信息。如果研究人员正在使用这些调查中的任何一项调查来调查一些政策变化，那么具有代表性的HRQOL权重的可用性将使他/她不仅可以计算死亡率影响，还可以计算发病率影响，从而可以综合得出政策变化的QALY影响。这些权重还有许多其他用途。例如，如果这些信息是定期收集和呈现的，它可能被用来描述美国人口的健康是如何随着时间的推移而变化的。