A comparison of the scaling properties of the English, Spanish, French, and Chinese EQ-5D descriptive systems

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2237-2243

  Luo, Nan ^a   Li, Minghui ^b   Chevalier, Julie ^c   Lloyd, Andrew ^d   Herdman, Michael ^e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^c ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^d ICON PLC   (United Kingdom)

^e Insight Consulting and Research   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross cultural equivalence; EQ 5D; Likert scale; Ordinality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPAIN; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889090646     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-012-0342-0     Document Type: Article

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