Adjusting distributions of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 utility scores of health-related quality of life

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-20

  Sun, Jian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confounding factors (epidemiology); Epidemiologic methods; Health status indicators; Health Utilities Index (HUI); Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONSTRUCTION WORK; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEALTH UTILITIES INDEX MARK 3; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; WORKER;

ADULT; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0037323668     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022017130014     Document Type: Article

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