Importance of sociodemographic and morbidity aspects in measuring health-related quality of life: Performances of three tools : Cionnaire scores

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 389-397

  Quercioli, Cecilia ^a   Messina, Gabriele ^a   Barbini, Emanuela ^a   Carriero, Giovanni ^b   Fanì, Mara ^c   Nante, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Local Health Unit No 7   (Italy)

^c Local Health Authority 2   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comparison; Euroqol; Health Utility Index; Health related quality of life; SF 36

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 69249238082     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-008-0139-9     Document Type: Article

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