Journal article
A Guide to Health Measurement
Abstract
Limited healthcare dollars have resulted in insistence that the benefit of new therapies be evaluated before being approved for marketing or reimbursement under health service systems. Adequate evidence of a treatment's effectiveness includes evidence of impact on patient's health-related quality of life, including physical, mental, and emotional health. There are two types of measures of health-related quality of life. One, general health and …
Authors
Jackowski D; Guyatt G
Journal
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®, Vol. 413, No. &NA;, pp. 80–89
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
August 2003
DOI
10.1097/01.blo.0000079771.06654.13
ISSN
0009-921X