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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.The EuroQol Group is an international, cross-disciplinary group set up in 1987 to investigate issues related to the valuation of health. In the course of the following decade it developed EQ-5D, an instrument that has been translated into more than 80 language versions and is in use throughout the world wherever it is important to measure health-related quality of life.§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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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues Medical equipment & techniques

• Full title: EQ-5D concepts and methods:
• Subtitle: a developmental history
• Author: Paul Kind, Richard Brooks, Rosalind Rabin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9789048169375
• ISBN: 9048169372
• ID: 01975170
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 414 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 163 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. October 2010

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