Table 5.

Discrimination across clinical severity groups

CKD stage	EQ-5D-3L					SF-6D
	N	Mean (SD)	Median	Sig*	ES	N	Mean (SD)	Median	Sig*	ES
Early stage	254 (24.0)	0.588 (0.30)	0.656	<0.001		254 (24.0)	0.551 (0.10)	0.570	<0.001
IV	614 (58.1)	0.566 (0.42)	0.620		0.071	614 (58.1)	0.536 (0.09)	0.560		0.141
V	151 (14.3)	0.467 (0.42)	0.585		0.305	151 (14.3)	0.523 (0.08)	0.550		0.138
Dialysis	38 (3.6)	0.126 (0.39)	−0.016		0.807	38 (3.6)	0.432 (0.07)	0.410		1.098

*Kruskal-Wallis test.

CKD, chronic kidney disease; EQ-5D-3L, EuroQoL-five-dimension-3 levels; ES, effect size; SF-6D, Short-Form six-dimension.