EQ-5D concepts and methods:: a developmental history

The EuroQol Instrument....Pages 1-17
The descriptive system of the EuroQol Instrument....Pages 19-27
The number of levels in the descriptive system....Pages 29-33
First steps to assessing semantic equivalence of the EuroQol Instrument: Results of a questionnaire survey to members of the EuroQol Group....Pages 35-52
Comparing general health related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires; EuroQol, Sickness Impact Profile and Rosser Index....Pages 53-62
Influence of self-rated health and related variables on EuroQol-valuation of health states in a Spanish population....Pages 63-80
Observations on one hundred students filling in the EuroQol questionnaire....Pages 81-90
Eliciting EuroQol descriptive data and utility scale values from inpatients....Pages 91-107
Test-retest reliability of health state valuations collected with the EuroQol questionnaire....Pages 109-123
Hypothetical valuations of health states versus patients’ self-ratings....Pages 125-138
Inconsistency and health state valuations....Pages 139-146
Issues in the harmonisation of valuation and modeling....Pages 147-156
Estimating a parametric relation between health description and health valuation using the EuroQol Instrument....Pages 157-170
Some considerations concerning negative values for EQ-5D health states....Pages 171-179
Health states considered worse than ‘being dead’....Pages 181-189
The effect of duration on the values given to the EuroQol states....Pages 191-199
Applying paired comparisons models to EQ-5D valuations - deriving TTO utilities from ordinal preference data....Pages 201-220
The use and usefulness of the EuroQol EQ-5D: Preliminary results from an international survey....Pages 221-234
Not a quick fix....Pages 235-237
Postscript....Pages 239-240