EQ-5D concepts and methods: A developmental history / edited by Paul Kind, Richard Brooks, Rosalind Rabin.

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The EuroQol Instrument -- The descriptive system of the EuroQol Instrument -- The number of levels in the descriptive system -- First steps to assessing semantic equivalence of the EuroQol Instrument: Results of a questionnaire survey to members of the EuroQol Group -- Comparing general health related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires; EuroQol, Sickness Impact Profile and Rosser Index -- Influence of self-rated health and related variables on EuroQol-valuation of health states in a Spanish population -- Observations on one hundred students filling in the EuroQol questionnaire -- Eliciting EuroQol descriptive data and utility scale values from inpatients -- Test-retest reliability of health state valuations collected with the EuroQol questionnaire -- Hypothetical valuations of health states versus patients’ self-ratings -- Inconsistency and health state valuations -- Issues in the harmonisation of valuation and modeling -- Estimating a parametric relation between health description and health valuation using the EuroQol Instrument -- Some considerations concerning negative values for EQ-5D health states -- Health states considered worse than ‘being dead’ -- The effect of duration on the values given to the EuroQol states -- Applying paired comparisons models to EQ-5D valuations - deriving TTO utilities from ordinal preference data -- The use and usefulness of the EuroQol EQ-5D: Preliminary results from an international survey -- Not a quick fix -- Postscript.

The EuroQol Group is an international, cross-disciplinary group set up in 1987 to investigate issues related to the valuation of health. This book presents a series of papers from the early 1990s that illustrate many key aspects of the development of EQ-5D including: the descriptive system, self-rated health, valuation issues, health status scaling, modeling and valuation, semantic issues, reliability, and comparison with other instruments. The book provides a detailed insight into the analytical processes involved in the development of the EQ-5D as one of the foremost instruments for the measurement and valuation of health-related quality of life, and will be of particular interest to researchers in this area. It will also appeal to all those involved in outcome measurement - clinical personnel, health policy advisers and administrators, those involved in audit and quality assurance, health economists, and the pharmaceutical industry.

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