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Preferred reporting items for studies mapping onto preference-based outcome measures: The MAPS statement

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Preferred reporting items for studies mapping onto preference-based outcome measures: The MAPS statement
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12955-015-0305-6
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Stavros Petrou, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Helen Dakin, Louise Longworth, Mark Oppe, Robert Froud, Alastair Gray

Abstract

'Mapping' onto generic preference-based outcome measures is increasingly being used as a means of generating health utilities for use within health economic evaluations. Despite publication of technical guides for the conduct of mapping research, guidance for the reporting of mapping studies is currently lacking. The MAPS (MApping onto Preference-based measures reporting Standards) statement is a new checklist, which aims to promote complete and transparent reporting of mapping studies. The primary audiences for the MAPS statement are researchers reporting mapping studies, the funders of the research, and peer reviewers and editors involved in assessing mapping studies for publication.A de novo list of 29 candidate reporting items and accompanying explanations was created by a working group comprised of six health economists and one Delphi methodologist. Following a two-round, modified Delphi survey with representatives from academia, consultancy, health technology assessment agencies and the biomedical journal editorial community, a final set of 23 items deemed essential for transparent reporting, and accompanying explanations, was developed. The items are contained in a user friendly 23 item checklist. They are presented numerically and categorised within six sections, namely: (i) title and abstract; (ii) introduction; (iii) methods; (iv) results; (v) discussion; and (vi) other. The MAPS statement is best applied in conjunction with the accompanying MAPS explanation and elaboration document.It is anticipated that the MAPS statement will improve the clarity, transparency and completeness of reporting of mapping studies. To facilitate dissemination and uptake, the MAPS statement is being co-published by eight health economics and quality of life journals, and broader endorsement is encouraged. The MAPS working group plans to assess the need for an update of the reporting checklist in five years' time.This statement was published jointly in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Journal of Medical Economics, Medical Decision Making, PharmacoEconomics, and Quality of Life Research.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Unknown 39 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 20%
Student > Bachelor 5 13%
Professor 4 10%
Other 3 8%
Student > Master 3 8%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 20%
Social Sciences 5 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 5%
Other 8 20%
Unknown 11 28%
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#13,442,631
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#1,027
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#124,072
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Outputs of similar age from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
#18
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