Publication: A feasible estimation of a “corrected” EQ-5D social tariff
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Abellán Perpiñán, José María ; Martínez Pérez, Jorge Eduardo ; Sánchez Martínez, Fernando Ignacio ; Pinto Prades, José Luis
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Elsevier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2024.05.004
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© 2024, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, Inc. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Value in Health. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2024.05.004.
Abstract
Objectives: To demonstrate the feasibility of estimating a social tariff free of utility curvature and probability weighting biases and to test transferability between riskless and risky contexts. Methods: Valuations for a selection of EQ-5D-3L health states were collected from a large and representative sample (N = 1676) of the Spanish general population through computer-assisted personal interviewing. Two elicitation methods were used: the traditional time trade-off (TTO) and a novel risky-TTO procedure. Both methods are equivalent for better than death states, which allowed us to test transferability of utilities across riskless and risky contexts. Corrective procedures applied are based on rank-dependent utility theory, identifying parameter estimates at the individual level. All corrections are health-state specific, which is a unique feature of our corrective approach. Results: Two corrected value sets for the EQ-5D-3L system are estimated, highlighting the feasibility of developing national tariffs under nonexpected utility theories, such as rankdependent utility. Furthermore, transferability was not supported for at least half of the health states valued by our sample. Conclusions: It is feasible to estimate a social tariff by using interviewing techniques, sample sizes, and sample representativeness equivalent to prior studies designed to generate national value sets for the EQ-5D. Utilities obtained in distinct contexts may not be interchangeable. Our findings caution against routinely taking transferability of utility for granted.
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Value in Health, 2024. 27(9): 1243-1250
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