title: Health-related quality of life in patients with severe COPD hospitalized for exacerbations - comparing EQ-5D, SF-12 and SGRQ.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of this study was to measure HrQoL during acute exacerbations of COPD using generic and disease-specific instruments, and to assess completeness, proportion with best or worst health state, sensitivity to change and discriminative ability for each instrument.
  
  
  METHODS
  EQ-5D, SF-12 and SGRQ were obtained from COPD patients with GOLD stage III and IV hospitalized for an acute exacerbation both at admission and discharge. To assess the instruments' properties, utility values were calculated for EQ-5D and SF-12, and a total score was derived from the SGRQ.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean utilities ranged from 0.54 (SF-12, stage IV) to 0.62 (EQ-5D, stage III) at admission, and from 0.58 (SF-12, stage IV) to 0.84 (EQ-5D, stage III) at discharge. Completeness was best for EQ-5D and SGRQ, while no utility value for the SF-12 could be calculated for more than 30%. For SGRQ subscales, the minimal score occurred in up to 11% at admission, while full health was observed for the EQ-5D at discharge in 13%. Sensitivity to change was generally good, whereas discrimination between COPD stages was low for the EQ-5D.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acute exacerbations seriously impair health status and quality of life. The EQ-5D is generally suitable to measure HrQoL in exacerbations of severe COPD, although the high proportion of patients reporting full health at discharge poses a problem. The main issue with the SF-12 is the high proportion of missing values in a self-assessed setting. Properties of the SGRQ were satisfactory. However, since no utility values can be derived from this disease-specific instrument, it is not suitable for cost-utility analyses in health-economic evaluations.
authors.affiliation: Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Neuherberg, Germany. petra.menn@helmholtz-muenchen.de
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Menn
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Holle
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; D011788:Quality of Life; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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