Properties of the 15D and EQ-5D utility measures in a community sample of people with epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 179-189

  Stavem, Knut ^a   Bjørnæs, Helge ^b   Lossius, Morten I ^a  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b The National Centre for Epilepsy   (Norway)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Health status; Health related quality of life; Utilities

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA COLLECTION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0342538821     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(01)00201-7     Document Type: Article

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