NICE DSU Technical Support Document 10: The Use of Mapping Methods to Estimate Health State Utility Values [Internet].

The NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisals recommends that quality adjusted life years (QALYs) are used as the measure of outcome for economic evaluation, and that the EQ-5D is the preferred measure of health-related utility to calculate QALYs. The guide also recognises that EQ-5D data may not always be available to analysts producing submissions and reports for NICE. Where such data are not available, the guide states that mapping can be used to predict EQ-5D data.

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