Quality of life outcomes in clinical trials and health-care evaluation : a practical guide to analysis and interpretation /

An essential, up-to-date guide to the design of studies and selection of the correct QoL instruments for observational studies and clinical trials. Quality of Life (QoL) outcomes or Person/Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are now frequently being used in randomised controlled trials (RCTs)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walters, Stephen John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Chichester, U.K. : John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Series:	Statistics in practice.
Subjects:	Clinical trials. Quality of life. Outcome assessment (Medical care) Cross-Sectional Studies Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Outcome Assessment, Health Care Quality of Life Research Design
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Measuring quality of life
Choosing a quality of life measure for your study
Design and sample size issues : how many subjects do I need for my study?
Reliability and method comparison studies for quality of life measurements
Summarizing, tabulating, and graphically displaying quality of life outcomes
Cross-sectional analysis of quality of life outcomes
Randomized controlled trials
Exploring and modelling longitudinal quality of life data
Advanced methods for analysing quality of life outcomes
Economic evaluations
Meta-analysis
Practical issues.