The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument: A psychometric measure of health-related quality of life

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 209-224

  Hawthorne, Graeme ^a   Richardson, Jeff ^b   Osborne, Richard ^b  

^a Centre for Health Program Evaluation   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Economic value of life; Evaluation studies; Health status indicators; Psychometrics; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0032770617     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008815005736     Document Type: Article

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