EQ-5D concepts and methods : a developmental history - Kind, Paul.; Brooks, Richard; Rabin, Rosalind; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005)
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.
Keywords: Medicine; Biomedicine, general