INVESTIGADORES
AUGUSTOVSKI Federico Ariel
artículos
Título:
Atlas Argentino de Calidad de Vida Relacionada con la Salud:Análisis de los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Factores de Riesgo por Provincias
Autor/es:
AUGUSTOVSKI F; REY-ARES, L.; GIBBONS, L.
Revista:
Value in Health Reagional Issues
Editorial:
ISPOR
Referencias:
Año: 2013
ISSN:
2212-1099
Resumen:
A B STRACT
Objective: To describegeneralpopulationhealthrelatedqualityoflife
(HRQOL) inArgentinaandperformanAtlasshowingthecountry?s
results usingdatafromthe first ?NationalRiskFactorsSurvey? and
local socialvalues. Methods: Secondarycross-sectionalstudyanaly-
zing EQ-5D-3Lresponses.Thevariablesofinterestwereself-reported
visual analogscaleina0-1scale(SR-VAS),aswellastime-tradeoff
(TTO) andVASpreferencevalues(PV).PVwereassignedusingweights
derived fromapreviouslocalstudy. Results: The surveyincluded
41.392 subjects;theexpandedpopulationrepresented96%oftheadult
population ofArgentina.8.82%ofthepopulationreportedexcellent
health, 24.6%verygood,43.9%goodand22.3%regularorbad.42.8%
reported limitationsinatleastoneoftheEQ-5Ddomain.SR-VAShad
a meanof0.75(IC95%0.75-0.76),whilegeneralpopulationmeansocial
TTO andVASbasedweightswere0.90(0.898-0.905)and0.87(IC95%
0.867?0.874)respectively.TheAtlasshowedsmalldifferencesamong
the provinces. Conclusions: This isapopulationbasedstudyaimed
to describeindepththeHRQOLbasedinEQ-5DusinglocalPV.It
summarizescountrylevelandgeographiclevelswithinthecountry,
and constitutesavaluableresourceandastartingpointforfuture
studies.
