Journal article
US Norms for Six Generic Health-Related Quality-of-Life Indexes From the National Health Measurement Study
Abstract
BACKGROUND: A number of indexes measuring self-reported generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) using preference-weighted scoring are used widely in population surveys and clinical studies in the United States.
OBJECTIVE: To obtain age-by-gender norms for older adults on 6 generic HRQoL indexes in a cross-sectional US population survey and compare age-related trends in HRQoL.
Authors
Fryback DG; Dunham NC; Palta M; Hanmer J; Buechner J; Cherepanov D; Herrington SA; Hays RD; Kaplan RM; Ganiats TG
Journal
Medical Care, Vol. 45, No. 12, pp. 1162–1170
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
December 2007
DOI
10.1097/mlr.0b013e31814848f1
ISSN
0025-7079