German cross-cultural adaptation of the Health Utilities Index and its application to a sample of childhood cancer survivors

Abstract Steady progress in developing effective treatments for childhood cancer and other severe pediatric diseases has established the need to consider the nature and frequency of late physical and psychological effects. The Health Utilities Index Mark 2 and Mark 3 (HUI2/3) systems were developed by Feeny, Furlong, Torrance et al. in Canada. These systems are generic multi-attribute measures of a person's health status and health-related …