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Four-year EuroQol initiative to help accelerate COVID-19 related research ends

Over the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, the EuroQol Research Foundation offered study-specific licenses free of charge to commercial users wishing to use EQ-5D instruments in studies aimed at testing COVID-19 treatments or diagnostic tools. During this period, numerous commercial organisations undertook COVID-19 related research around the world using EQ-5D instruments – with EuroQol…

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EQ-5D-Y-5L launched! A new EuroQol instrument providing children and adolescents with a wider range of options to describe their HRQoL

Launched as an approved EuroQol Group instrument today, the EQ-5D-Y-5L is a new generic measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for use with children and adolescents. The EQ-5D-Y-5L covers the same five dimensions of health in its descriptive system questionnaire as the EQ-5D-Y-3L (formerly EQ-5D-Y), but has five levels of response in each dimension…

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EQ-5D-Y-3L User Guide update

An updated EQ-5D-Y-3L User Guide is now available on the EuroQol website.  Changes include: renaming the EQ-5D-Y to the EQ-5D-Y-3L ahead of the launch of a new version of a new EQ-5D youth instrument during 2024 (EQ-5D-Y-5L, which provides five response levels of severity to questions in the descriptive system); revisions to clarify recommended age…

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EuroQol Experimental Instrument Registration Form

The EuroQol Office introduced the EuroQol Experimental Instrument Registration Form on the EuroQol website on the 1st of June to streamline all incoming requests for the use of Experimental versions. The registration form applies to requests to use the EQ-HWB, EQ-HWB-S, EQ-TIPS and EQ-5D-Y-5L which are not publicly available yet and are only shared with…

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Updates to the translation request process

Please be advised that there are updates to the translation request process: Please find more information regarding the updates here.

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New Members joined the EuroQol Group Association

In 2024, four new members have joined the EuroQol Group Association. Congratulations! Rachel Tan Hannah Penton Tianxin Pan Edward Webb

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The 17th Joint Call for Proposals by the EuroQol Working Groups is now OPEN!

The 17th Joint Call for Proposals by the EuroQol Working Groups is now OPEN. You can download the Call for Proposals document here. The EuroQol Research Foundation is inviting applications for funding by its competitive research funding programs. The Foundation aims to serve the public interest by supporting scientific research and development of instruments which…

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