Evaluation of a new short generic measure of health status: HowRu

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-101

  Benson, Tim ^a,d   Sizmur, Steve ^b   Whatling, Justin ^c   Arikan, Seref ^c   McDonald, Dianna ^b   Ingram, David ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PICKER INSTITUTE EUROPE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Abies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Health status; HowRu; Outcome assessment; Patient reported outcome measures; SF 12

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78449303232     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v18i2.758     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A new health system for the twenty-first century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001.
2. Darzi. High Quality Care for All: NHS next stage review final report. London: Department of Health, 2008.
3. NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity: Report of the Office of Health Economics Commission. London: OHE, 2008.
4. Greenhalgh J. The applications of PROs in clinical practice: What are they, do they work, and why? Quality of Life Research 2009;18:115-23.
5. Frost MH, Bonomi AE, Cappelleri JC et al. Applying quality-of-life data formally and systematically into clinical practice. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2007;82: 1214-28.
6. Fung CH and Hays RD. Prospects and challenges in using patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice. Quality of Life Research 2008;17:1297-302.
7. Donabedian A. Evaluating the quality of medical care. The Millbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 1966;44:166-203.
8. Fanshel S and Bush JW. A health status index and its application to health-services outcomes. Operations Research 1970;18:1021-66.
9. Torrance GW, Thomas W and Sackett D. A utility maximisation model for evaluation of health care programs. Health Services Research 1972;7:118-33.
10. Culyer AJ, Lavers RJ and Williams A. Social indicators: Health. Social Trends 1971;2:31-42.
11. Ware JE. Scales for measuring general health perceptions. Health Services Research 1976;11:396-415.
12. Bergner M, Bobbitt RA, Kressel S, Pollard WE, Gilson BS and Morris JR. The sickness impact profile: Conceptual formulation and methodology for the development of a health status measure. International Journal of Health Services 1976;6:393-415.
13. Ware JE Jr and Sherbourne CD. The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection. Medical Care 1992;30:473-83.
14. Brooks RG. EuroQoL - the current state of play. Health Policy 1996;37:53-72.
15. Horsman J, Furlong W, Feeny D and Torrance G. The Health Utility Index (HUI): Concepts, measurement properties and applications. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003;1:54.
16. Acquadro C, Berzon R, DuboisDet al. Incorporating the patient's perspective into drug development and communication: An ad hoc task force report of the patientreported outcomes (PRO) harmonization group meeting at the Food and Drug Administration, February 16, 2001. Value in Health 2003;6:522-31.
17. Stull DE, Leidy NK, Parasuraman P and Chassany O. Optimal recall periods for patient-reported outcomes: Challenges and potential solutions. Current Medical Research and Opinion 2009;25:929-42.
18. Rosser RM and Watts VC. The measurement of hospital output. International Journal of Epidemiology 1972;1: 361-8.
19. Rosser R and Benson T. New tools for evaluation: Their application to computers. In: Anderson J (ed) Medical Informatics Europe 78, First Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics: Proceedings. Cambridge, England, September 4-8, 1978 (lecture notes in medical informatics). Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1978, pp. 701-10.
20. Rosser R, Allison R, Butler C, Cottee M, Rabin R and Selai C. The Index of Health-Related Quality of Life (IHQL): A new tool for audit and cost-per-QALY analysis. In: Walker SR and Rosser RM (eds) Quality of Life Assessment: Key issues in the 1990s. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992, pp. 179- 84 and 455-66.
21. Bakken S, Cimino JJ, Haskell R et al. Evaluation of the Clinical LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, and Codes) Semantic Structure as a Terminology Model for Standardized Assessment Measures. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2000;6:529-38.
22. Chisholm J. The Read Clinical Classification: The NHS has acquired a coding system designed for the computer age. British Medical Journal 1990;300:1092.
23. NHS Information Authority. Clinical Terms Version 3 (the Read Codes): Introduction and overview. 2000. www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/ systemsandservices/data/readcodes/docs/chap1.pdf
24. Benson T. Principles of Health Interoperability HL7 and SNOMED. London: Springer, 2010.
25. Ware JE, Kosinski M and Keller SD. A 12-Item Short- Form Health Survey: Construction of scales and preliminary tests of reliability and validity. Medical Care 1996; 34:220-33.
26. Messick S. Validity of psychological assessment. American Psychologist 1995;50:741-9.
27. Clark LA and Watson D. Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development. Psychological Assessment 1995;7:309-19.
28. Streiner Dand Norman G. Health Measurement Scales: A practical guide to their development and use (4e). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
29. Netemeyer RG, Bearden WO and Sharma S. Scaling Procedures: Issues and applications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.
30. Fayers PMand Machin D. Quality of Life: The assessment, analysis and interpretation of patient-reported outcomes. Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2007.
31. Finster M and Wood M. The Apgar Score has survived the test of time. Anaesthesiology 2005;102:855-7.
32. Teasdale G and Jennett B. Assessment of coma and impaired consciousness: A practical scale. The Lancet 1974;304:81-4.
33. Murray DW, Fitzpatrick R, Rogers K et al. The use of the Oxford Hip and Knee Scores. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume 2007;89-B:1010-14.
34. Higginson IJ and Carr AJ. Using quality of life measures in the clinical setting. British Medical Journal 2001;322: 1297-300.
35. Sederer LI, Dickey B and Eisen SV. Assessing outcomes in clinical practice. Psychiatric Quarterly 1997;68:311-25.
36. Donaldson MS. Taking PROs and patient-centered care seriously: Incremental and disruptive ideas for incorporating PROs in oncology practice. Quality of Life Research 2008;17:1323-30.
37. Rose M and Bezjak A. Logistics of collecting patientreported outcomes (PROs) in clinical practice: An overview and practical examples. Quality of Life Research 2009;18:125-36.
38. Hawthorne G. Assessing utility where short measures are required: Development of the Short Assessment of Quality of Life-8 (AQoL-8) instrument. Value in Health 2009;12:6, 948-57.
39. Paz SH, Jiu H, Fongwa MN, Morales LS and Hays RD. Readability estimates for commonly used health-related quality of life surveys. Quality of Life Research 2009; 18:889-900.
40. Calderon JL and Beltran R. Pitfalls in health communication: Healthcare policy, institution, structure and process. Medscape General Medicine 2004;6:e7.
41. McDowell I. Measuring Health: A guide to rating scales and questionnaires (3e). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
42. Sturgis P, Thomas R, Purdon S, Bridgwood A and Dodd T. Comparative Review and Assessment of Key Health State Measures of the General Population. London: Department of Health, 2001.
43. Fitzpatrick R, Bowling A, Gibbons E et al. A Structured Review of Patient-Reported Measures in Relation to Selected Chronic Conditions, Perceptions of Quality of Care and Carer Impact. Patient-Reported Health Instruments Group. Oxford: Report for the Department of Health, 2006. phi.uhce.ox.ac.uk/pdf/ChronicConditions/dh-reviews-november-2007.pdf
44. Browne J et al. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Elective Surgery. London: Report for the Department of Health, 2007. www.lshtm.ac.uk/ hsru/ research/PROMs-Report-12-Dec-07.pdf
45. Johnson JA and Pickard AS. Comparison of EQ-5D and SF-12 health surveys in a general population survey in Alberta, Canada. Medical Care 2000;38:115-21.
46. Hawthorne G, Richardson J and Atherton Day N. A comparison of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) with four other generic utility instruments. Annals of Medicine 2001;33:358-70.
47. Larson CO, Hays RD and Nelson EC. Do the pictures influence the scores on the Dartmouth COOP Charts. Quality of Life Research 1992;1:247-9.