Assessing utility where short measures are required: Development of the short assessment of quality of life-8 (AQoL-8) Instrument

Value in Health

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 948-957

  Hawthorne, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

AQoL; Cost utility analysis; Health related quality of life; Outcomes research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANXIETY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE 8; AUSTRALIA; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CARE; SHORT FORM 36; SLEEP; SOCIAL INTERACTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651233938     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2009.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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