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• Title:Measuring quality of life in health / Rod O'Connor.
  
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• Author/Creator:O'Connor, Rod.
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh : Churchill Livingston, Elsevier, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: BF176 .O36 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Quality of life--Testing.
  Public health--Methodology.
  Health surveys.
  
• Medical Subjects: Quality of Life--psychology.
  Data Collection.
  Health Surveys.
  Outcome Assessment, Health Care--methods.
  Research Design.
  
• Description:xvi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  
• Summary:"Measuring Quality of Life in Health provides a comprehensive introduction for all those interested in the application and use of patient-centred health outcome measures."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
  
• ISBN:0443073198
  
• Contents:1. Context, role and nature of patient-centred health outcome measures
  2. Diverse psychological mechanisms mediate reports of health-related quality of life
  3. First actions when selecting, assessing, developing or modifying a test
  4. Validity : the degree to which a scale measures what the user intends it to
  5. Single-item measures for scaling health states
  6. Classical approaches to test development
  7. Steps in developing a classical test
  8. Modern test theory
  9. development of some generic instruments
  10. Evaluating an instrument
  11. Topics of special interest.