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. 2023 Sep 14;42(1):109–116. doi: 10.1007/s40273-023-01314-2

Table 2.

Time to death models (TTD) applied to the pooled CheckMate-017 and CheckMate-057 EQ-5D-3L data using the UK value set

Statistical model All patientsa
[n = 788, N = 4850]
Confirmed death only used in model fits i.e. excluding censors
[n = 718, N = 3627]
Last year of life only used in model fits
[n = 587, N = 2007]
Artificially censoring at 24 months follow-up
[n = 617, N = 2645]
MAE QICu MAE QICu MAE QICu MAE QICu
TTD 0.184 4853 0.183 3629 0.193 2009 0.184 2656
Log(TTD) 0.173 4847 0.178 3628 0.190 2008 0.179 2656
1/TTD 0.179 4847 0.177 3628 0.190 2008 0.180 2656
1/eTTD NA NA NA NA 0.201 2009 0.193 2652
TTD2 NA NA NA NA 0.195 2009 0.186 2656
TTD2+TTD NA NA NA NA 0.190 2010 0.181 2657
Time to death grouping (≤4 weeks, 5–26 weeks, 27–52 weeks, ≥52 weeks) 0.175 4849 0.178 3631 0.191 2011 0.180 2658
Progression-based utilities (pre/post progression) 0.193 4852 0.191 3629 0.201 2009 0.194 2656

Bold formatting shows the preferred Log(TTD) model fit

n number of patients, N number of observations, MAE mean absolute error, QICu Quasi Information Criterion, TTD time to death (days), NA not applicable (model did not converge)

aDate last known alive used as the date of death for continuous TTD models