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Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s

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Editors:
  1. Stuart R. Walker

    1. Welsh School of Pharmacy, University of Wales College, Cardiff, UK

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  2. Rachel M. Rosser

    1. University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London University, London, UK

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Philosophies, Concepts and Key Instruments Involved in Assessing Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The new era of quality of life assessment

      • J. Leighton Read
      Pages 3-10

    3. Assessing health-related quality of life for clinical decision-making

      • Donald L. Patrick, Pennifer Erickson
      Pages 11-63

    4. The Quality of Well-being Scale: rationale for a single quality of life index

      • Robert M. Kaplan, John P. Anderson, Theodore G. Ganiats
      Pages 65-94

    5. Development, testing, and use of the Sickness Impact Profile

      • Marilyn Bergner
      Pages 95-110

    6. The Nottingham Health Profile

      • James McEwen
      Pages 111-130

    7. The McMaster Health Index Questionnaire: an update

      • Larry W. Chambers
      Pages 131-149

    8. A health index and output measure

      • Rachel M. Rosser
      Pages 151-178

    9. The Index of Health-related Quality of Life (IHQL): a new tool for audit and cost-per-QALY analysis

      • Rachel Rosser, Richard Allison, Carole Butler, Michaela Cottee, Rosalind Rabin, Caroline Selai
      Pages 179-184

    10. A fifteen-dimensional measure of health-related quality of life (15D) and its applications

      • Harri Sintonen, Markku Pekurinen
      Pages 185-195

    11. The EuroQol© quality of life project

      • Rachel Rosser, Harri Sintonen
      Pages 197-199

    12. A WHO method for the assessment of health-related quality of life (WHOQOL)

      • Norman Sartorius
      Pages 201-207

    13. Indices versus profiles — advantages and disadvantages

      • Monika Bullinger
      Pages 209-220

    14. The On-Line Guide to Quality-of-Life Assessment (OLGA): resource for selecting quality of life assessments

      • Pennifer Erickson, Jeffrey Scott
      Pages 221-232

  3. Assessing Quality of Life in Major Disease Areas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Measuring the quality of life of patients with cancer

      • Peter Selby
      Pages 235-267

    3. Measuring the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

      • Richard A. Deyo
      Pages 269-287

    4. Measuring the quality of life of patients with Parkinson’s disease

      • J. S. Shindler, R. Brown, P. Welburn, J. D. Parkes
      Pages 289-300

    5. Measurement of health-related quality of life in asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease

      • Paul W. Jones
      Pages 301-320
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About this book

It was over five years ago that the Centre for Medicines Research organized a workshop entitled "Quality of Life: Assessment and Application". This workshop brought together a unique group of participants, some of whom had been involved in studies on quality of life for well over a decade, whilst others were meeting the subject for the first time. This blend of experienced researchers and enthusiastic newcomers was a great stimulus to the discus­ sions which followed individual presentations as well as that resulting from the study groups. In the ensuing publication, a balance was sought between a consideration of the complex principles underlying the assessment of quality of life and the application of such assessments to specific clinical conditions which necessitated this approach. The organization in 1991 of a second workshop entitled "Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s" resulted in a further consideration of the quality of life philosophy, concepts and key instruments together with an update on assessing quality of life in a number of major disease areas. Of particular importance was an examination of various viewpoints concerned with ethical questions and their implications, and quality oflife from industry, regulatory and health care purchasers' perspectives. As a result of this second workshop, the editors of the original book referred to above decided to produce a second edition with a number of updates and additional chapters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Welsh School of Pharmacy, University of Wales College, Cardiff, UK

    Stuart R. Walker

  • University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London University, London, UK

    Rachel M. Rosser

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s

  • Editors: Stuart R. Walker, Rachel M. Rosser

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2988-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8991-0Published: 31 December 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5328-0Published: 26 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2988-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 487

  • Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Public Health

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