Does the choice of EQ-5D tariff matter? A comparison of the Swedish EQ-5D-3L index score with UK, US, Germany and Denmark among type 2 diabetes patients

Table 3 Absolute transition scores, consistent health transition and standardized response mean for the observed EQ-5D-3L health transitions

	Absolute mean transition score	95 % CI	Consistent health gain/loss ranked by the UK tariff (Sweden vs.) (%)	Standardized response mean for consistent transitions (n = 2078)	Clinically important difference in transition scores compared with Sweden^a (%)
Sweden	0.17	0.16-0.17	-	1.58	-
UK	0.40	0.39-0.41	84.5	1.81	76.7
US	0.26	0.25-0.27	83.4	1.73	63.7
Denmark	0.33	0.32-0.34	86.8	1.56	68.8
Germany	0.34	0.33-0.35	77.2	1.67	74.7

^aFor this, first we computed the absolute difference in transition scores between Sweden and other countries for all 2775 possible health transitions. Then, we calculated the proportion of health transitions with absolute difference greater than 0.074

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