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Mesure des années de vie ajustées par la qualité de vie globale au Québec : le 13-MD

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  • Mustapha Touré
  • Thomas G. Poder

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The increasing demand on health systems combined with the scarcity of available resources makes it imperative to optimise them through informed choices. The concept of quality-adjusted life year (QALY) arises in this purpose and uses health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments, including generic instruments. However, many differences can be noted between those instruments. The general observation is that almost all generic instruments contain one or more dimensions related to physical health (e.g., disability, discomfort, pain) at the expense of other mental or social dimensions. To overcome this limitation, a new instrument has been created, aiming to be a more comprehensive and balanced measure of global health-related quality of life (GHRQoL). This report presents the key steps in the creation of this instrument as well as the results obtained in measuring the GHRQoL of Quebeckers in spring 2021. A new generic instrument, the 13-MD, composed of 33 items with 5 to 7 levels each, was thus developed. The creation of a value set allowing the conversion of health states into utility scores will allow its use in cost-utility analyses. La demande croissante à laquelle font face les systèmes de santé combinée à la rareté des ressources disponibles rend impératif leur optimisation pour effectuer des choix éclairés. Le concept d’année de vie ajustée par la qualité (AVAQ) s’inscrit dans ce cadre et utilise des instruments de mesure de qualité de vie reliée à la santé (QVRS), parmi lesquels des instruments génériques. Cependant, de nombreuses différences peuvent être observées entre ces instruments. Le constat général est que quasiment tous les instruments génériques contiennent une ou plusieurs dimensions liées à la santé physique (p. ex. incapacité, inconfort, douleur) au détriment d'autres dimensions d’ordre mentales ou sociales. Afin de pallier cette limite, un nouvel instrument a été créé, son but étant d’être plus complet et plus équilibré dans la mesure de la qualité de vie reliée à la santé globale (QVRS-G). Ce rapport présente les étapes clés de la création de cet instrument ainsi que les résultats obtenus dans la mesure de la QVRS-G des québécois au printemps 2021. Ainsi un nouvel outil générique, le 13-MD, composé de 33 items avec 5 à 7 niveaux chacun a été mis sur pieds. La création d’un value set permettant la conversion des états de santé en scores d’utilité permettra son utilisation dans les analyses coût-utilité.

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  • Mustapha Touré & Thomas G. Poder, 2022. "Mesure des années de vie ajustées par la qualité de vie globale au Québec : le 13-MD," CIRANO Working Papers 2022s-24, CIRANO.
  • Handle: RePEc:cir:cirwor:2022s-24
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    Keywords

    Global health-related quality of life; Economic assessment; Quality-adjusted life-year; Generic instrument; Qualité de vie reliée à la santé globale; évaluation économique; année de vie ajustée à la qualité; instrument générique;
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    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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