Centre for Health Economics, University of York, YORK, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom.
Health Econ. 2012 Dec;21(12):1508-12. doi: 10.1002/hec.1823. Epub 2012 Jan 17.
The derivation of population norms using simple generic health-related quality of life measures to inform policy has been recommended in the literature. This letter illustrates the derivation of population norms for the SF-6D in the United Kingdom. It uses a sample of 22,166 respondents from the 2010 wave of the study Understanding Society. Understanding Society is a national representative sample of British citizens. The survey of this study contains the SF-12. It is possible to derive health state utilities from the SF-12 (and from the SF-36) using a relatively new instrument, the SF-6D. The SF-12 and the SF-36 belong to the most widely used generic health-related quality of life measures. Mean SF-6D utility scores for males and females are 0.81 and 0.79, respectively. Especially the older age categories have lower utility scores. The younger age categories have slightly higher utility scores. From a list of 17 conditions, people with congestive heart failure had the lowest (0.60) and people with diabetes the highest (0.76) SF-6D scores. This letter encourages the health economics research community to derive SF-6D population norms to inform policy.
使用简单的通用健康相关生活质量指标来为政策提供信息的人口规范推导已在文献中得到推荐。这封信说明了英国 SF-6D 人口规范的推导。它使用了来自 2010 年“理解社会”研究浪潮的 22166 名受访者的样本。“理解社会”是英国公民的全国代表性样本。该研究的调查包含 SF-12。使用一种新的工具，即 SF-6D，可以从 SF-12（和 SF-36）中推导出健康状态效用。SF-12 和 SF-36 属于使用最广泛的通用健康相关生活质量测量工具。男性和女性的平均 SF-6D 效用得分分别为 0.81 和 0.79。特别是年龄较大的类别具有较低的效用得分。年龄较小的类别具有略高的效用得分。在 17 种疾病中，充血性心力衰竭患者的 SF-6D 得分最低（0.60），糖尿病患者的 SF-6D 得分最高（0.76）。这封信鼓励健康经济学研究界推导出 SF-6D 人口规范，以为政策提供信息。
