Assessing quality of life in clinical trials : methods and practice /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Generic versus disease-targeted instruments
- Developing questionnaires
- Reliability and validity (including responsiveness)
- Evaluating multi-item scales
- Applying item response theory modelling for evaluation questionnaire item and scale properties
- Translating and evaluating questionaires : cultural issues for international research
- Computerized adaptive testing and item banking
- Developing a questionnaire using item response theory : a case study of fatigue
- Context effects and proxy assessments
- Analysing longitudinal studies of QoL
- Preventing missing data
- Analysing studies with missing data
- The role and use of differential item functioning (DIF) analysis of quality of life data from clinical trials
- Individualized quality of life
- Meaningful differences
- Health-related quality of life outcomes in clinical trials
- Response shift : you know it's there but how do you capture it? Challenges for the next phase of research
- Individual patients monitoring
- Self-rated health
- Generic adult health status measures
- Practical considerations in the measurement of HRQoL in child/adolescent clinical trials
- Developing disease-targeted HRQoL measures for neurologic conditions
- Values and valuation in the measurement of HRQoL
- Preference-based measures : utility and quality-adjusted life years
- Discrete choice experiments
- Combining clinical trials : meta-analyses