EuroQol is happy to announce the launch of a new whiteboard animation about the EQ VAS (visual analogue scale) element of EQ-5D. The animation explains what the EQ VAS is and how it can be used at both individual and…
EuroQol is pleased to announce that its Version Management Committee has recently approved 30 language versions of the Interviewer Administered (IA) Proxy 1 EQ-5D variant. The Proxy 1 IA version is available in 28 languages for EQ-5D-5L and in English…
The research team for the new EQ-5D-5L valuation study for the United Kingdom has been finalised. This team will bring significant experience and expertise to the valuation study. They were carefully selected by the project’s Steering Group and come from…
A review identifying which multi-attribute utility instruments (MAUIs) are recommended for use in official national pharmacoeconomic (PE) guidelines has been published in the European Journal of Health Economics. The study reviewed PE guidelines where health technology assessment is used to…
EuroQol is pleased to launch a new whiteboard animation, ‘How to obtain EQ-5D’. The animation is intended for anyone interested in using EQ-5D. It describes the process of registering and gaining access to the instrument, one of the most widely…
EuroQol is pleased to launch the Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese and Spanish version of the whiteboard animation ‘Explaining the EQ-5D in about two-and-a-half-minutes’. The animation is intended for anyone interested in EQ-5D, one of the most widely used measures of patient…
NICE has announced on their website today their decision to support the development of a new EQ-5D-5L valuation study for England. The new study will be funded and managed by the EuroQol Group, with ongoing advisory input from NICE, the…
EuroQol has developed a summary slide kit providing a summary of the EuroQol Group, the EQ-5D measure, use of EQ-5D, availability of value sets and translations, information on how to obtain EQ-5D for use in a study, and an overview…
The EuroQol Office is pleased to announce that a new version of the EQ-5D-5L User Guide is available for download. Updates have been made to nearly all sections of the User Guide, including: A significantly revised section on how to…
The EuroQol Group is pleased to announce that seven standard EQ-5D-5L valuation studies have been published over the last year for Ireland, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan, Thailand - and most recently the USA. This brings the total number of countries/regions…