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Background/aims In rare diseases, health-related quality of life (HRQL) data can be difficult to capture. Given the ultrarare nature of RPE65-mediated inherited retinal disease (IRD), it was not feasible to recruit a patient sample and collect HRQL data prospectively. The objectives of this study were to develop health state descriptions of RPE65-mediated IRD, and to estimate associated patient utilities.
Methods Vignette descriptions of IRD states were developed and then assessed to elicit utilities. The vignettes ranged from moderate vision loss through to hand motion to no light perception (NLP). Six retina specialists with additional expertise in IRDs provided a proxy valuation of the vignettes using generic measures of health—the 5-level version of EQ-5D-5L and Health Utility Index 3 (HUI3). The data were then scored using standard methods for each instrument.
Results Weights from both HRQL measures revealed a large decline in scores with vision loss. The EQ-5D-5L weights ranged from 0.709 for moderate vision loss to 0.152 for hand motion to NLP. The HUI3 weights ranged from 0.519 to − 0.039, respectively. A decline was seen on both measures, and the degree of decline from moderate vision loss to NLP was identical on both (−0.56).
Conclusion This is the first study to report HRQL weights (or utilities) for health states describing different levels of vision loss in patients with IRD, specifically those with RPE65-mediated disease. The parallel decline in scores from the EQ-5D and HUI3 corroborates the substantial impact of progressive vision loss on HRQL.
- retina
- epidemiology
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Contributors AL designed the study, helped develop study materials, analysed data and wrote the paper. NP helped develop study materials and undertook some of the study interviews. SP and TC provided input into the study materials and reviewed and edited drafts of the paper. TOC, SJ and MB provided input into the study materials, reviewed the health states and reviewed and edited drafts of the paper.
Funding This work was supported by Spark Therapeutics.
Competing interests AL and NP work for Acaster Lloyd, a private consultancy which was paid a fixed fee for work on this project. SJ, MB and TOC work for Medicus Economics and were engaged by Spark Therapeutics to provide economic modelling services on the project for a fixed fee. TC and SP are employees of Spark Therapeutics, which owns LUXTURNA—a treatment for RPE65-mediated IRD.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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