EuroQol: The current state of play
EuroQol: The current state of play
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DOI：
10.1016/0168-8510(96)00822-6
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发表时间：
1996-07-01
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影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Brooks, R
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作者：
Brooks, R
EuroQol小组于1987年首次举行会议，以测试联合开发一种描述和评价与健康有关的生活质量的标准化非特定疾病工具的可行性。从一开始，该集团就是多国、多中心和多学科的。EuroQol工具的目的是补充其他形式的生活质量措施，它的目的是产生一个基本的健康指数，因此在经济评价中具有相当大的潜力。该集团在健康状况衡量的发展和评估方面投入了相当大的努力。1990年报告了早期的工作；这篇论文是详细描述后续发展的第二次“公司”努力。EuroQol框架的基本概念特别参考了该工具的一般性质进行了探讨。对估价任务进行了审查，并提出了关于计量方法要求的一些证据。讨论了专家组相当感兴趣和关注的一些特别问题：数据建模、健康状态的持续时间以及与“死亡”状态有关的问题。概述了EuroQol仪器的一些应用，并对该小组正在进行的工作计划进行了简要评论。
The EuroQol Group first met in 1987 to test the feasibility of jointly developing a standardised non-disease-specific instrument for describing and valuing health-related quality of life. From the outset the Group has been multi-country, multi-centre, and multi-disciplinary. The EuroQol instrument is intended to complement other forms of quality of life measures, and it has been purposefully developed to generate a cardinal index of health, thus giving it considerable potential for use in economic evaluation. Considerable effort has been invested by the Group in the development and valuation aspects of health status measurement. Earlier work was reported upon in 1990; this paper is a second 'corporate' effort detailing subsequent developments. The concepts underlying the EuroQol framework are explored with particular reference to the generic nature of the instrument. The valuation task is reviewed and some evidence on the methodological requirements for measurement is presented. A number of special issues of considerable interest and concern to the Group are discussed: the modelling of data,the duration of health states and the problems surrounding the state 'dead'. An outline of some of the applications of the EuroQol instrument is presented and a brief commentary on the Group's ongoing programme of work concludes the paper.