Measuring patient quality of life: Is the health utility index useful?

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-62

  Tempier, Raymond ^a   Pawliuk, Nicole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health utility index; Health related quality of life; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MOOD DISORDER; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DYSKINESIA, DRUG-INDUCED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUEBEC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 33846498523     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: 15736709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11126-006-9026-7     Document Type: Article

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