Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is a multidimensional construct that can
comprehensively evaluate patient's health status including but not limited to: physical …

Background The objective of this review was to evaluate the use of all direct and indirect
methods used to estimate health utilities in both children and adolescents. Utilities …

Background Research on self-and family management of chronic conditions has advanced
over the past 6 years, but the use of simple frameworks has hampered the understanding of …

BACKGROUND: Clinical outcomes are worse in current smokers and exsmokers with mild-
to-moderate asthma compared with never smokers, but little is known about the influence of …

Background. A common feature of most reviews or catalogues of health utilities has been
their focus on adult health states or derivation of values from adult populations. More …

Background Allergic asthma is a long-term disorder of the airways resulting from
overexpression of immunoglobulin E (IgE) in response to environmental allergens. Patients …

Purpose Evidence surrounding utilities for health states, derived either directly from the
application of preference-based valuation methods or indirectly from the application of …

BACKGROUND: Although many Canadian studies have provided disease-specific or patient
group–specific utility scores, the utility score norms currently available for the general …

Adolescent patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) show an increased risk for
behavioral and emotional dysfunction. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is influenced by …

Accurate resource-use measurement is challenging within an economic evaluation, but is a
fundamental requirement for estimating efficiency. Considerable research effort has been …