EQ-5D concepts and methods : a developmental history

List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements List of tables List of figures 1. The EuroQol instrument, Alan Williams 2. The descriptive system of the EuroQol Instrument, Claire Gudex 3. The number of levels in the descriptive system, Heleen van Agt and Gouke Bonsel 4. First steps to assessing semantic equivalence of the EuroQol, Instrument: Results of a questionnaire survey to members of the EuroQol Group, Julia Fox-Rushby 5. Comparing general health-relates quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires EuroQol, Sickness Impact Profile and Rosser Index, Stefan Bjork and Ulf Persson 6. Influence of self-rated health and related variables on EuroQolvaluation of health states in a Spanish population, Xavier Badia, Esteve Fernandez and Andreu Segura 7. Observations on one hundred students filling in the EuroQol questionnaire, Jan Busschbach, Dick Hessing and Frank de Charro 8. Eliciting EuroQol descriptive data and utility scale values from inpatients, Caroline Selai and Rachel Rosser 9. Test-retest reliability of health state valuations collected with the EuroQol questionnaire, Heleen van Agt, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Paul Krabbe and Gouke Bonsel 10. Hypothetical valuations of health states versus patients' self-ratings, Erik Nord, Xavier Badia, Montserrat Rue and Harri Sintonen 11. Inconsistency and health state valuations, Paul Dolan and Paul Kind 12. Issues in the harmonisation of valuation and modeling, Paul Krabbe, Frank de Charro and Marie-Louise Essink-Bot 13. Estimating a parametric relation between health description and health valuation using the EuroQol Instrument, Ben van Hout and Joseph McDonnell 14. Some considerations concerning negative values for EQ 5D health states, Frank de Charro, Jan Busschbach, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Ben van Hout and PaulKrabbe 15. Health states considered worse than 'being dead', Stefan Bjork and Rikard Althin 16. The effect of duration on the values given to the EuroQol states, Arto Ohinmaa and Harri Sintonen 17. Applying paired comparisons models to EQ-5D valuations - deriving TTO utilities from ordinal preference data, Paul Kind 18. The use and usefulness of the EuroQol EQ-5D: preliminary results from an international survey, Rosalind Rabin, Paul Kind and Frank de Charro 19. Not a quick fix, Martin Buxton Appendices.