EQ-5D concepts and methods: A developmental history

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kind, Paul (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Brooks, Richard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rabin, Rosalind (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.

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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The EuroQol Instrument
• The descriptive system of the EuroQol Instrument
• The number of levels in the descriptive system
• First steps to assessing semantic equivalence of the EuroQol Instrument: Results of a questionnaire survey to members of the EuroQol Group
• Comparing general health related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires; EuroQol, Sickness Impact Profile and Rosser Index
• Influence of self-rated health and related variables on EuroQol-valuation of health states in a Spanish population
• Observations on one hundred students filling in the EuroQol questionnaire
• Eliciting EuroQol descriptive data and utility scale values from inpatients
• Test-retest reliability of health state valuations collected with the EuroQol questionnaire
• Hypothetical valuations of health states versus patients’ self-ratings
• Inconsistency and health state valuations
• Issues in the harmonisation of valuation and modeling
• Estimating a parametric relation between health description and health valuation using the EuroQol Instrument
• Some considerations concerning negative values for EQ-5D health states
• Health states considered worse than ‘being dead’
• The effect of duration on the values given to the EuroQol states
• Applying paired comparisons models to EQ-5D valuations - deriving TTO utilities from ordinal preference data
• The use and usefulness of the EuroQol EQ-5D: Preliminary results from an international survey
• Not a quick fix
• Postscript.