Do personal and societal preferences differ by socio‐demographic group?

Peter Franks, Erica I. Lubetkin and Joy Melnikow

Health Economics, 2007, vol. 16, issue 3, 319-325

Abstract: For equity, preferences used in cost‐effectiveness analyses (CEAs) should yield similar values for different groups with similar health states. We used data from the US 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, including socio‐demographics, EQ‐5D Index and EQ Visual Analog Scale (EQ VAS) scores, to examine whether EQ‐5D Index (representing community preferences) and EQ VAS (representing personal preferences) scores differed systematically by socio‐demographic group. Differences between EQ‐5D Index and EQ VAS scores by socio‐demographic group were small and mostly not statistically significant. These preliminary findings suggest that using the EQ‐5D Index in CEAs may not contribute to socio‐demographic inequities. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2007
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