… The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B) is the most commonly used
… whether a mapping function can be established from the FACT-B to the EQ-5D-5 L when the …

… Models using various regression methods with or without recognizing the upper boundary
… the FACT-B. Data from a follow-up survey of these patients were used to validate the results. …

… (WHOQOL-BREF) to EQ-5D 5-Levels (EQ-… several regression-based mapping approaches
using the breast cancer study [21]. In that study, we found a model consisting of three FACT-B …

… mapping algorithms using 7 regression methods. Direct … Although many mapping algorithms
from the two cancer-specific … [29], the algorithm using FACT-B cannot be used in patients …

… most appropriate model to use, and many existing models are … of potential models to develop
mapping functions from 2 widely … testing alternative common modeling techniques that are …

… Table 4 Correlation between EQ-5D-5 L scale and FACT-L scale … five modeling methods
to build 30 mapping models. Based on the different performance of the models in Adjusted R 2 , …

… of the FACIT, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—… module for many cancers such
as breast cancer (FACT-B)for … models were the most commonly used methods for mapping …

… of each model were also evaluated using r 2 and adj- r 2 , MAE, … comparing predictions of
EQ-5D-5 L values using the four … modeling methods in mapping functions. Other more suitable …

… Compared with several other mapping studies that used the Beta mixture regression … , we
used four mapping methods of direct mapping functions to develop a robust mapping model to …

… methods were adopted for direct mapping and one method … mapping algorithms developed
from Models 1 or 2 could be used. … Although both FACT-B and QLQ-BR53 are widely used in …