Estimating respiratory syncytial virus health utility values for older adults and their ca

241 Japanese adults participated in an online time trade-off survey between April and June 2023 to quantify the health burden of respiratory syncytial virus. The study, authored by Regina Rendas-Baum, estimated median willingness to trade 73, 22, and 7 days to avoid severe, lower, and upper respiratory tract infections, respectively. It also calculated corresponding quality-adjusted life-year losses of 0.200, 0.060, and 0.018 for patients and 0.086, 0.043, and 0.008 for caregivers.

Use Cases

• Modeling cost-effectiveness of RSV vaccines based on estimated QALY losses for different infection severities.
• Assessing the societal burden of RSV by incorporating caregiver health utility values into health economic analyses.
• Comparing health state preferences for respiratory infections across different demographic or national populations based on time trade-off values.

Strengths

• Survey includes responses from 241 Japanese adults, with a subset of 45 having caregiving experience.
• Health utility values are derived using a standardized time trade-off methodology for six distinct health states.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single-country (Japan) survey sample.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional online survey using a time trade-off approach.

Time Range

Data collected between April and June 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 09:18:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Japan