Mapping EORTC-QLQ-C30 and QLQ-CR29 onto EQ-5D-5L in Colorectal Cancer Patients

Purpose Patient-level utility data are needed for cost-utility analysis; in oncology, however, the data are commonly gathered using disease-specific questionnaires that are often not appropriate. Present study aimed to derive an algorithm which can map the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-C30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) scales and the Colorectal Cancer-Specific Quality Of Life Questionnaire (QLQ-CR29) scales onto the EuroQoL 5-Dimension 5-Level (EQ-5D-5L) values in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods Using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) model, a cross-sectional dataset of 252 patients with CRC were gathered from three academic centers of cancer treatment in Tehran in 2017. The predicted R 2 (Pred R 2 ) and adjusted R 2 (Adj R 2 ) are used to evaluate model goodness of fit. Additionally, mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), Spearman’s correlation coefficients (ρ), and intraclass correlation (ICC) are applied to assess predictive ability of models. The tenfold cross-validation procedure was applied for validation models. Results According to the results of our study, the model C4 from EORTC QLQ-C30 was the best predictive model (Pred R 2 = 66.57%, Adj R 2 = 67.67%, RMSE = 0.10173, MAE = 0.07840). Also, the model R4 from QLQ-CR29 performed the best for EQ-5D-5L (Adj R 2 = 48.42%, Pred R 2 = 45.54%, MAE = 0.10051, RMSE = 0.12997). Conclusions The mapping algorithm successfully mapped the EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-CR29 scales onto the EQ-5D-5L values; therefore, it enables policymakers to convert cancer-specific questionnaires scores to the preference-based scores.