Journal article
A multiattribute approach to health-status measurement and clinical management illustrated by an application to brain-tumors in childhood.
Abstract
A comprehensive multi-attribute system was devised to assess global morbidity burden. The system was used to obtain qualitative and quantitative measures of health-status for a case series of survivors of brain tumors in childhood. Health-related quality-of-life scores for each global health-state were calculated from a utility function derived from measures of preferences collected during surveys of a random sample of parents of school age …
Authors
Barr R; Pai M; Weitzman S; Feeny D; Furlong W; Rosenbaum P; Torrance G
Journal
International Journal of Oncology, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 639–648
Publisher
Spandidos Publications
Publication Date
March 1994
DOI
10.3892/ijo.4.3.639
ISSN
1019-6439