An invaluable resource for health professionals and students engaged in research, this
thoroughly updated edition provides a guide to the major measures of health and …

In occupational psychology, we are familiar with reviews of occupational tests both at Level
A and Level B. In this book, the author presents concise reviews of broad health-related …

The field of health status and quality of life (QoL) measurement–as a formal discipline with a
cohesive theoretical framework, accepted methods, and diverse applications–has been …

Quality of life assessment is a central element of clinical trials and related forms of evaluative
research. Early efforts to establish appropriate methods of measuring quality of life drew on …

The phrase “quality of life” is used in many different ways, and one of the major issues that
faces this area of work is how the term should be defined and conceptualized. One of the …

This chapter outlines the on-going development of an instrument to measure health-related
quality of life, the Index of Health-Related Quality of Life (IHQL). The first section describes …

The hope and promise of the Effectiveness Initiative to curtail escalating health care costs
remind me of the time an airline pilot made an urgent announcement during a transatlantic …

The current interest in incorporating psychosocial outcomes into health care research raises
a number of conceptual and methodological issues regarding the assessment of health …

Considerable data and expertise have accumulated in the assessment of quality of life, but
to date this assessment has largely been restricted to the development of instruments that …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to discuss the value of health‐related quality of life
(HR‐QOL) measurement and describe its development with a few examples …