EQ-5D concepts and methods:
a developmental history
Editors: Kind, Paul, Brooks, Richard, Rabin, Rosalind (Eds.)
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Science today makes progress through the imaginative harvesting of knowledge g- erated by the many, rather than as the result of the isolated endeavours of the lone researcher. Innovations in the physical sciences from the development of nuclear te- nologies to the laser, have involved research teams working collectively. Collabo- tion is the rule rather than the exception. In the social sciences this model is all but reversed. Here it is not uncommon to encounter the solitary enthusiast, relishing an independence of spirit and pursuing their own private research agenda. All the more surprising then that a group of researchers from several different disciplines, should have come together in the late 1980s with nothing more substantial on the agenda than that they share their thoughts on the topic of measuring the value of health, or more specifically, on the way that the value of health might vary across different countries. Few scientific enterprises can have begun as cautiously or uncertainly. Few can have developed a cohesion and dynamism that lasted decades and continues to drive ahead after long years of scientific endeavour. Such is the good fortune that befell those of us who came together to form what was later to be known as the Euro- Qol Group. The Group's creation is principally due to the shared professional asso- ation of its members with one man, an economist by training and a visionary academic by inclination and temperament - Alan Williams.
- Table of contents (20 chapters)
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The EuroQol Instrument
Pages 1-17
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The descriptive system of the EuroQol Instrument
Pages 19-27
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The number of levels in the descriptive system
Pages 29-33
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First steps to assessing semantic equivalence of the EuroQol Instrument: Results of a questionnaire survey to members of the EuroQol Group
Pages 35-52
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Comparing general health related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires; EuroQol, Sickness Impact Profile and Rosser Index
Pages 53-62
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- EQ-5D concepts and methods:
- Book Subtitle
- a developmental history
- Editors
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- Paul Kind
- Richard Brooks
- Rosalind Rabin
- Copyright
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-3712-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/1-4020-3712-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-3711-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-6937-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 240
- Topics
