US Norms for Six Generic Health-Related Quality-of-Life Indexes From the National Health Measurement Study
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US norms for six generic health-related quality-of-life indexes from the National Health Measurement study.
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. METHODS T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Care
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0025-7079
DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0b013e31814848f1