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Measuring health-related quality-of-life for Alzheimer’s disease using the general public

Abstract

PurposeLittle research exists to indicate whether the general public can provide proxy health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) estimates for persons with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We investigated (1) whether the general public can differentiate between mild, moderate, and severe AD and (2) whether the general public’s proxy HRQoL estimates are correlated with current health status.MethodsWe conducted computer-assisted personal interviews. The …

Authors

Xie F; Oremus M; Gaebel K

Journal

Quality of Life Research, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 593–601

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

May 2012

DOI

10.1007/s11136-011-9966-8

ISSN

0962-9343