Valuation Methods for Child Healthcare

Assessing the value of healthcare interventions for children is made difficult by the lack of solid measures for metrics like quality of life. In a new article in Value & Health Outcomes Spotlight, Christiane Truelove discusses the difficulties in value-assessment for child healthcare and explores options for moving forward.

According to Truelove, “According to Reckers-Droog, although the quality-of-life stages in the adult and the child versions of the EQ-5D instrument are similar, research shows these utilities differ between adult and child health states. Specifically, the first value sets that were developed in the child’s version of EQ-5D instrument showed that members of the public attribute a higher value to the health states for children than for adults with similar health states, and “there’s more noise in the data,” Reckers-Droog says. The study’s goal was to explain what drives these differences.”

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(Source: Value & Outcomes Spotlight, October 7^th, 2022)