Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Lund University, Department of Economics
No 2018:40: Do We Know What We Are Doing? An Exploratory Study on Swedish Health Economists and the EQ-5D
Carl Hampus Lyttkens (), Ulf-G. Gerdtham () and Gustav Tinghög ()
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Carl Hampus Lyttkens: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Ulf-G. Gerdtham: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Gustav Tinghög: Division of Economics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University
Abstract: The UK tariff for quality of life associated with the health states in the EQ-5D is probably not consistent with the preferences of Swedish health economists. This is worrying in view of the widespread use of the tariff values and the fact that health economists likely are better able than ordinary citizens to report their preferences for health states in a valid and reliable manner. We suggest this result is taken into account when the EQ-5D instrument is used, and that researchers should be cautious in using the UK (or any other) value sets. Our results also indicate that the variation across citizens in preferences for health may be a more complex issue than previously observed and deserves further study. An intriguing question for the future is to what extent health economists use methods and instruments that they themselves do not believe in.
Keywords: health-related quality of life; EQ-5D; valid; respondents; health economist
13 pages, December 10, 2018
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