HUInc Health-Related Quality of Life Research

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References
 

A Few Sources of Information
on the Health Utilities Index (HUI®)

November 20, 2007

HUI-related papers compiled by 
David Feeny1,2,3,4William Furlong1,4 and George W. Torrance1,4,5
1Health Utilities Inc., Dundas, Ontario, Canada
2University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
3Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
4Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
5Innovus Research Inc., Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Review Studies
Methodological Studies
Clinical and Evaluative Studies
Population Health Applications
HUI3 in Canadian Population Health Surveys
Clinical area or health-care problems studied using HUI
Country of study where HUI has been utilized
NOTE: There is duplication of entries deemed to be relevant in more than one of the above categories

Review Studies (Listed chronologically)

Feeny, David, "The Health Utilities Index: A Tool for Assessing Health Benefits" PRO Newsletter (#34, 2005 in press) [NOTE: formerly known as Quality of Life Newsletter]

Horsman, John, William Furlong, David Feeny, and George Torrance, "The Health Utilities Index (HUI®): Concepts, Measurement Properties and Applications." Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (electronic journal) (Vol. 1: 54, October 16, 2003), at http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/54

Torrance GW, Furlong W, Feeny D. "Health utility estimation." Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, Vol. 2(2), 2002, pp 99-108. [Constructs and Inter-Instrument Comparisons]

Eiser, Christine, Rachel Morse, "The Measurement of Quality of Life in Children: Past and Future Perspectives." Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2001, pp 248-256. [Measurement Properties, Inter-Instrument Comparisons]

Furlong, William J., David H. Feeny, George W. Torrance, Ronald D. Barr, "The Health Utilities Index (HUI®) system for assessing health-related quality of life in clinical studies." Annals of Medicine, Vol. 33, No. 5, July, 2001, pp 375-384. [Description of Systems; Reliability; Scoring; Validity][Canada]

Feeny, David H., George W. Torrance, and William J. Furlong, "Health Utilities Index," Chapter 26 In Bert Spilker, ed. Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials. Second Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Press, 1996, pp 239-252. [Description of Systems; Reliability; Scoring; Validity][Canada, Pediatric ALL]

Methodological Studies [Cross-Cultural Validation; Description; Development of Systems; Interpretability; Reliability; Responsiveness; Scoring; Theory; Validity] (Listed alphabetically by 1st author)

Asada, Yukiko, "Medical Technologies, Nonhuman Aids, Human Assistance, and Environmental Factors in the Assessment of Health States." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 3, April, 2005, 867-874. [HUI3; Construct Validity]

Barr, Ronald D., David Feeny, and William Furlong, "Economic Evaluation of Treatments for Cancer in Childhood." European Journal of Cancer, Vol. 40, No. 9, June, 2004, pp 1335-1344. [HUI2; HUI3][childhood cancer]

Barr RD, Saleh M, Furlong W, Horsman J, Sek J, Pai M, Walker I. "Health status and health-related quality of life associated with hemophilia." Am J Hematology,Vol. 71, 2002, pp 152-160. [HUI2, HUI3, Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Canada, Hemophilia]

Barr, Ronald D., Claire Petrie, William Furlong, Marilyn Rothney, and David Feeny, "Health-Related Quality of Life during Post-Induction Chemotherapy in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Remission:  An Influence of Corticosteroid Therapy." International Journal of Oncology, Vol. 11, 1997, pp 333-339. [Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Canada, Pediatric ALL]

Blanchard, Chris, David Feeny, Jeffrey L. Mahon, Robert Bourne, Cecil Rorabeck, Larry Stitt, and susan Webster-Bogaert, "Is the Health Utilities Index Valid in Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients?," Quality of Life Research, Vol. 13, No. 2, March, 2004, pp 339-348. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct validity] [Canada, hip disease]

Blanchard, Chris, Isabelle C, and David Feeny, "Comparing Short Form and RAND Physical and Mental Health Summary Scores: Results from Total Hip Arthroplasty and High-Risk Primary-Care Patients," International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2003, pp 1-7. [HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, clinical, hip disease, osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty]

Blanchard, Chris, David Feeny, Jeffrey L. Mahon, Robert Bourne, Cecil Rorabeck, Larry Stitt, and Susan Webster-Bogaert, "Is the Health Utilities Index Valid in Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients?," Quality of Life Research (2003), in press. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty]

Blanchard, Chris, David Feeny, Jeffrey L. Mahon, Robert Bourne, Cecil Rorabeck, Larry Stitt, and Susan Webster-Bogaert, "Is the Health Utilities Index Responsive in Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients,?" Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 56, No. 11, November 2003, pp 1046-1054. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Canada, clinical, hip disease, osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty]

Bosch, Johanna L., Elkan f. Halpern, and G. Scott Gazelle, "Comparison of Preference-Based Utilities of the Short-Form 36 Health Survey and Health Utilities Index Before and After Treatment of Patients with Intermittent Claudication." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 22, No. 5, September-October 2002, pp 403-409. [HUI2, HUI3, Construct Validity; Responsiveness] [Netherlands, Intermittent Claudication]

Bosch, Johanna L., James K. Hammitt, Milton C. Weinstein, and Maria G. Hunink, "Estimating General-population Utilities Using One Binary-gamble Question per Respondent." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 18, No. 4, October-December, 1998, pp 381-390. [Scoring][USA]

Boyle Michael H, and George W. Torrance, "Developing Multi-attribute Health Indexes." Medical Care, Vol. 22, No.11, November, 1984, pp 1045-1057. [Development of Systems]

Boyle, Michael H., William Furlong, David Feeny, George Torrance, and Jeff Hatcher, "Reliability of the Health Utilities Index - Mark III Used in the 1991 Cycle 6 General Social Survey Health Questionnaire." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 4, No 3, June, 1995, pp 249-257. [Reliability][Canada]

Brazier, John, Jennifer Roberts, Aki Tsuchiya, and Jan Busschbach, "A Comparison of the EQ-5D and SF-6D Across Seven Patient Groups." Health Economics, Vol. 13, No. 9, September, 2004, pp 873-884. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness]

Buron, Catherine, Catherine Le Galès, Nathalie Costet, et al. "Développement d'un Système de Classification Générique d'états de santé pondéré par les Utilités: le Health Utility Index." Communication Présentée au XIXème Séminaire des Économistes de la Santé. Lyon, October 16-17, 1997. [Cultural Adaptation][France]

Cadman, David, and Charles Goldsmith, "Construction of Social Value or Utility-Based Health Indices: The Usefulness of Factorial Experimental Design Plans." Journal of Chronic Disease, Vol. 39, No. 8, 1986, pp 643-651. [Development of Systems; Scoring]

Cadman, David, Charles H. Goldsmith, and P. Bashim, "Values, preferences, and decisions in the care of children with developmental disabilities." Developmental and Behaviourial Pediatrics, Vol. 5, 1984, pp 60-64. [Development of Systems; Scoring]

Cadman, David, Charles Goldsmith, George W. Torrance, et al., "Development of a Health Status Index for Ontario Children," Final Report to the Ontario Ministry of Health on Research Grant DM648 (00633). Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University, 1986. [Development of Systems; Scoring]

Conner-Spady, Barbara, and Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, "Variation in the Estimation of Quality- Adjusted Life-Years by Different Preference-based Instruments." Medical Care, Vol. 41, No. 7, July, 2003, pp 791-801. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Canada, musculoskeletal disease]

Cookson, Richard, "QALYs and the Capability Approach." Health Economics, Vol. 14, No. 8, August, 2005, pp 817-829. [HUI2; HUI3]

Costet, Nathalie, Catherine Le Galès, Catherine Buron, Françoise Kinkor, Mounir Mesbah, Judith Chwalow, Clinical and Economic Working Groups, and Gérard Slama, "French Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2) and 3 (HUI3) Classification Systems." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 7, No. 3, April, 1998, pp 245-256. [Cross-Cultural Validation][France]

Côté, Isabelle, Karen Farris, and David Feeny, "Is Adherence to Drug Treatment Correlated with Health-Related Quality of Life?" Quality of Life Research, Vol. 12, No. 6, September, 2003, pp 621-633. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada]

Cox, Cheryl L., Shelly Lensing, Shesh N. Rai, Pam Hinds, Elizabeth Burghen, and Ching-Hon Pui, "Proxy Assessment of Quality of Life in Pediatric Clinical Trials: Application of the Health Utilities Index 3." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 4, May, 2005, pp 1045-1056. [HUI3; Reliability; Inter-Rater Reliability; Proxy Assessment][USA, childhood cancer]
(Commentary) Furlong, William, and Ronald D. Barr, "Commentary on Cox CL, Lensing S, Rai SN et al. Proxy Assessment of Quality of Life in Pediatric Clinical Trials: Application of the Health Utilities Index 3. Qual Life Res 2005; 14: 1045-1056." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 15, No. 7, September, 2006, pp 1291-1293.
(Response) Hinds, Pamela S., and Shesh N. Rai, "Reponse to the Commentary by Furlong & Barr on Cox CL, Lensing S, Rai SN et al. Proxy Assessment of Quality of Life in Pediatric Clinical Trials: Application of the Health Utilities Index 3." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 15, No. 7, September, 2006, pp 1295-1296.[HUI3; Reliability; Inter-Rater Reliability; Proxy Assessment]

de Vries, Sybolt O., Wietze D. Kuipers, Maria G. M. Hunink, "Intermittent Claudication: Symptom Severity Versus Health Values." Journal of Vascular Surgery, Vol. 27, 1998, 422-430. [Construct Validity][Netherlands, Peripheral Artery Disease]

Drummond, Michael, "Introducing Economic and Quality of Life Measurements into Clinical Studies." Annals of Medicine, Vol. 33, No. 5, July, 2001, pp 344-349.[Review]

Drummond, Michael F., Greg L. Stoddart, and George W. Torrance, Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. [Description of Systems and Scoring; Theory]

Drummond, Michael F., Bernie O'Brien, Greg Stoddart, and George W. Torrance, Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. [Description of Systems and Scoring; Theory]

Drummond, Michael F., Mark J. Sculpher, George W. Torrance, Bernie O'Brien, and Greg L. Stoddart, Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Description of Systems and Scoring; Theory]

Eiser, Christine, Rachel Morse, "The Measurement of Quality of Life in Children: Past and Future Perspectives." Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2001, pp 248-256. [Measurement Properties, Inter-Instrument Comparisons]

Espallargues, Mireia, Carolyn J. Czoski-Murray, Nicholas J. Bansback, Jill Carlton, Grace M. Lewis, Lindsey A. Hughes, Christopher S. Brand, and John E. Brazier, "The Impact of Age- Related Macular Degenerationon Health Status Utility Values." Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Vol. 46, No. 11, November, 2005, pp 4016-4023. [HUI3; Construct Validity][UK, Vision]

Ettema, Teake P., Rose-Marie Droes, Jacomine de Lange, Gideon J. Mellenbergh, and Miel W. Ribbe, "A Review of Quality of Life Instruments Used in Dementia." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 3, April, 2005, pp 675-686. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article][mental health]

Feeny, David, "The Multi-Attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life," Chapter 34 in Andrew M. Jones, ed., The Elgary Companion to Health Economics, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2006, pp 359-370. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article]

Feeny, David, "Health-Status Classification Systems for Summary Measures of Population Health." Chapter 7.2 in Christopher J.L.Murray, Joshua A. Salomon, Colin D. Mathers, and Alan D. Lopez, eds., Summary Measures of Population Health: Concepts, Ethics, Measurement and Applications. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2002, pp 329-341. [HUI2, HUI3, Review]

Feeny, David, "The Utility Approach to Assessing Population Health," Chapter 10.2 in Christopher J.L.Murray, Joshua A. Salomon, Colin D. Mathers, and Alan D. Lopez, eds., Summary Measures of Population Health: Concepts, Ethics, Measurement and Applications. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2002, pp 329-341. [HUI2, HUI3, Review]

Feeny, David, "Comparing and Contrasting Utilities and Willingness to Pay," Chapter 20 in William R. Lenderking and Dennis A. Revicki, eds., Advancing Health Outcomes Research Methods and Clinical Applications, McLean, Virginia, International Society for Quality of Life Research and Degnon Associates, Inc., 2005, pp 353-367. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article]

Feeny, David, "Preference-Based Measures: Utility and Quality-Adjusted Life Years," Chapter 6.2 in Peter Fayers and Ron Hays, eds., Assessing Quality of Life in Clinical Trials, Second Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp 405-429. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article]

Feeny, David, "The Health Utilities Index: A Tool for Assessing Health Benefits." PRO Newsletter, No. 34, Spring, 2005, pp 2-6. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article]

Feeny, David, "The Roles for Preference-Based Measures in Support of Cancer Research and Policy," Chapter 4 in Joseph Lipscomb, Carolyn Cook Gotay, and Claire Snyder, eds., Outcomes Assessment in Cancer: Findings and Recommendations of the Cancer Outcomes Measurement Working Group, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp 69-92. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article]

Feeny, David, "Preference-Based Measures: Utility and Quality-Adjusted Life Years," Chapter 6.2 in Peter Fayers and Ron Hays, eds., Assessing Quality of Life in Clinical Trials, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp 405-429, in press. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article]

Feeny, David, Lieling Wu, and Ken Eng, "Comparing Short Form 6D, Standard Gamble, and Health Utilities Index Mark 2 and Mark 3 Utility Scores: Results from Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 13, No. 10, December 2004, pp 1659-1670. [HUI2; HUI3; Scoring][Canada, Osateoarthritis, Total Hip Arthroplasty]

Feeny, David, Chris Blanchard, Jeffrey L. Mahon, Robert Bourne, Cecil Rorabeck, Larry Stitt, and Susan Webster-Bogaert, "Comparing Community-Preference Based and Direct Standard Gamble Utility Scores: Evidence from Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring, 2003, pp 362-372. [HUI2; HUI3; Scoring][Canada, osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty]

Feeny, David, William Furlong, Saroj Saigal, and Jian Sun,"Comparing Directly Measured Standard Gamble Scores to HUI2 and HUI3 Utility Scores: Group and Individual-Level Comparisons." Social Science & Medicine, Vlo 58 No. 4, 2003, pp 799-809. [HUI2; HUI3; Scoring][Canada, Extremely low birthweight, pediatrics]

Feeny, David, "A Utility Approach to Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life." Medical Care, Vol. 38, No. 9, Supplement II, September, 2000, pp II-151 - II-154. [Theory]

Feeny, David and George W. Torrance, "Incorporating Utility-Based Quality-of-Life Assessments in Clinical Trials: Two Examples." Medical Care, Vol. 27, No. 3, Supplement, March, 1989, pp S190-S204. [Theory]

Feeny, David, William Furlong, Ronald D. Barr, George W. Torrance, Peter Rosenbaum, and Sheila Weitzman, "A Comprehensive Multiattribute System for Classifying the Health Status of Survivors of Childhood Cancer." Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 10, No. 6, June, 1992, pp 923-928. [Description; Construct Validity][Canada, ALL, Wilms Tumour, Neuroblastoma]

Feeny, David, William Furlong, Michael Boyle, and George W. Torrance, "Multi-Attribute Health Status Classification Systems: Health Utilities Index." PharmacoEconomics, Vol 7, No 6, June, 1995, pp 490-502. [Description; Development of Systems]

Feeny, David, William Furlong, George W. Torrance, Charles H. Goldsmith, Zenlong Zhu, Sonja DePauw, Margaret Denton, and Michael Boyle, "Multi-Attribute and Single-Attribute Utility Functions for the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 System." Medical Care, Vol. 40, No. 2, February, 2002, pp 113-128. [Scoring HUI3]

Feeny, David H., George W. Torrance, and William J. Furlong, "Health Utilities Index," Chapter 26 In Bert Spilker, ed. Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials. Second Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Press, 1996, pp 239-252. [Description of Systems; Reliability; Scoring; Validity][Canada, Pediatric ALL]

Feeny, David H., George W. Torrance, and Roberta Labelle, "Integrating Economic Evaluations and Quality of Life Assessments," In Bert Spilker, ed. Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials. Second Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Press, 1996, pp 85-95. [Description of Systems and Scoring]

Feeny, David, William Furlong, and Ronald D. Barr, "Multiattribute Approach to the Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life: Health Utilities Index." Medical and Pediatric Oncology, Vol. 31, Supplement 1, 1998, pp 54-59. [Construct Validity; Responsiveness][[Canada, Pediatric ALL]

Felder-Puig, Rosemarie, E. Frey, G. Sonnleithner, David Feeny, H. Gadner, Ronald D. Barr, William Furlong, and Reinhard Topf, "German Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Health Utilities Index and Its Application to a Sample of Childhood Cancer Survivors." European Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 159, No. 4, April, 2000, pp 283-288. [Cross-Cultural validation; Construct Validity; Reliability/Agreement][German/Austria; Childhood Cancer]

Fisher, Gregory W., "Utility Models for Multiple Objective Decisions: Do They Accurately Represent Human Preferences." Decision Sciences, Vol. 10, 1979, pp 451-479. [Theory]

Fisk, J. D., M. G. Brown, I. S. Sketris, L. M. Metz, T. J. Murray, and K. J. Stadnyk, "A Comparison of Health Utility Measures for the Evaluation of Multiple Sclerosis Treatments." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Vol. 76, No. 1, January, 2005, pp 58-63. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Test-Retest Reliability][Canada, Multiple Sclerosis]

Franks, Peter, Erica L. Lubetkin, Marthe R. Gold, and Daniel J. Tancredi, "Mapping SF-12 to Preference-Based Instruments: Convergent Validity in a Low-Income, Minority Population." Medical Care. Vol. 41, No. 11, November, 2003, pp 1277-1283. [HUI3; scoring][USA]

Furlong, William J., David H. Feeny, George W. Torrance, Ronald D. Barr, "The Health Utilities Index (HUIR) system for assessing health-related quality of life in clinical studies." Annals of Medicine, Vol. 33, No. 5, July, 2001, pp 375-384. [HUI2; HUI3; Description of Systems; Reliability; Scoring; Validity][Canada]

Furlong, William, George W. Torrance, and David Feeny, "Properties of Health Utilities Index: Preliminary Evidence." Quality of Life Newsletter, Numbers 13-14, June, 1995 - January, 1996, pages 3, 4, and 10. [Construct Validity; Reliability]

Furlong, William, David Feeny, George W. Torrance, Charles Goldsmith, Sonja DePauw, Michael Boyle, Margaret Denton, and Zenglong Zhu, "Multiplicative Multi-Attribute Utility Function for the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) System: A Technical Report," McMaster University, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper No. 98-11.[Scoring][Canada]
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Furlong William J., David H. Feeny, George W. Torrance, and Ronald D. Barr, "The Health Utilities Index (HUI(r)) System for Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in Clinical Studies." McMaster University Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper No. 01-02, March, 2001.. Information on ordering CHEPA Working Papers may be obtained from the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, HSC 3H1, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5 Canada; (905) 525-9140, ext. 22122; FAX: (905) 546-5211; E-mail: chepa@mcmaster.ca; web: http://www.chepa.org/home/default.asp http://chepa.mcmaster.ca/[HUI2; HUI3; Description of Systems; Reliability; Scoring; Validity]

Gabriel, Sherine E., Terry S. Kneeland, L. Joseph Melton, III, Megan M. Moncur, Bruce Ettinger, and Anna N. A. Tosteson, "Health-Related Quality of Life in Economic Evaluations for Osteoporosis: Whose Values Should We Use?" Medical Decision Making, Vol. 19, No. 2, April-June, 1999, pp 141-148. [Scoring][USA, Osteoporosis]

Garratt, Andrew, Louise Schmidt, Anne Mackintosh, Ray Fitzpatrick, "Quality of life measurement: bibliographic study of patient assessed health outcome measures." BMJ, Vol. 324, No. 7351, 15 June 2002, pp 1417-1421. [Review]

Gemke, Reinoud J. B. J., and Gouke J. Bonsel, "Reliability and Validity of a Comprehensive Health Status Measure in a Heterogeneous Population of Children Admitted to Intensive Care." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol 49, No 3, March, 1996, 327-333. [Construct Validity; Reliability][Netherlands, Pediatric Intensive Care]

Glick, Henry A., Daniel Polsky, Richard J. Willke, and Kevin A. Schulman, "A Comparison of Preference Assessment Instruments Used in a Clinical Trial: Responses to the Visual Analog Scale from the EuroQol EQ-5D and the Health Utilities Index." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 19, No. 3, July-September, 1999, pp 265-275. [Construct Validity; Scoring][USA, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Adult]

Gold, Marthe R., Donald L. Patrick, George W. Torrance, Dennis G. Fryback, David C. Hadorn, Mark S. Kamlet, Norman Daniels, and Milton C. Weinstein, "Identifying and Valuing Outcomes," Chapter 4 in Marthe R. Gold, Joanna E. Siegel, Louise B. Russell, and Milton C. Weinstein, eds., Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp 82-134. [Description of Systems; Theory]

Grima, Daniel T., George W. Torrance, G. Francis, G. Rice, A.J. Rosner and L. LaFortune, "Cost and Health Related Quality of Life Consequences of Multiple Sclerosis." Multiple Sclerosis, Vol. 6, No. 2, April, 2000, pp 91-98. [Construct Validity][Canada; Multiple Sclerosis]

Grootendorst, Paul, David Feeny, and William Furlong, "Does It Matter Whom and How You Ask? An Investigation into Inter- and Intra-rater Agreement in the 1990 Ontario Health Survey." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 50, No. 2, February, 1997, pp 127-135. [Reliability][Canada, Population Health]

Grootendorst, Paul, David Feeny, and William Furlong, "Health Utilities Index Mark 3: Evidence of Construct Validity for Stroke and Arthritis in a Population Health Survey." McMaster University, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper No. 99-06, June, 1999. [Construct Validity][Canada, Stroke]

Grootendorst, Paul, David Feeny, and William Furlong, "Health Utilities Index Mark 3: Evidence of Construct Validity for Stroke and Arthritis in a Population Health Survey." Medical Care, Vol. 38(3), March, 2000, pp 290-299. [Construct Validity][Canada, Stroke]

Harsanyi, John C., "Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 63, 1955, pp 309-321. [Scoring; Theory]

Hatoum, Hind T., John E. Brazier, and Kasem S. Akhras, "Comparison of the HUI3 with the SF- 36 Preference Based SF-6D in a Clinical Trial Setting." Value and Health, Vol. 7, No. 5, September, 2004, pp 602-609. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness]][Canada and USA, cardiovascular]

Hawthorne, Graeme, Jeff Richardson, "Measuring the Value of Program Outcomes: A Review of Multiattribute Utility Measures." Expert Reviews in Pharmacoeconomics Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2001, pp 215-228. [HUI3; Review Paper; Construct Validity]

Hawthorne, Graeme, Jeff Richardson, and Neil Atherton Day, "A Comparison of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) with four other Generic Utility Instruments." Annals of Medicine, Vol. 33, No. 5, July, 2001, pp 358-370. [HUI3; Review Paper; Construct Validity][Australia]

Houle, Christian, and Jean-Marie Berthelot, "A Head-to-Head Comparison of the Health Utilities Mark 3 and the EQ-5D for the Population Living in Private Households in Canada", Quality of Life Newsletter, No. 24, January-June 2000, pp 5-6. [Construct Validity][Canada]

Hung, Shih-Ying, A. Simon Pickard, Whitney P. Witt, and Bruce L. Lambert, "Pain and Depression in Caregivers Affected Their Perception of Pain in Stroke Patients." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 60, No. 9, September, 2007, pp 963-970. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Inter-Rater Reliability][Canada, stroke]

Janse, A. J., R. J. B. J. Gemke, C. S. P. M. Uiterwall, I. Van der Tweel, J. L. L. Kimpen, and G. Sinnema, "Quality of Life: Patients and Doctors Don't Always Agree: A Meta-Analysis." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 57, No. 7, July, 2004, pp 653-661. [HUI2; HUI3; Inter- rater Reliability][Netherlands, ALL, cystic fibrosis, arthritis, asthma]

Janse, A. J., G. Sinnema, C. S. P. M. Uiterwaal, J. L. L. Kimpen, and R. J. B. J. Gemke, "Quality of Life in Chronic Illness: Perceptions of Parents and Paeditricians." Archives of Diseases in Childhood, Vol. 90, No. 5, May, 2005, pp 486-491. [HUI3; Inter-rater Reliability][Netherlands, ALL, cystic fibrosis, arthritis, asthma]

Janse, A. J., C. S. P. M. Uiterwall, R. J. B. J. Gemke, J. L. L. Kimpen, and G. Sinnema, "A Difference in Perception of Quality of Life in Chronically Ill Children Was Found Between Parents and Pediatricians." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 58, No. 5, May, 2005, pp 495- 502. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Reliability][Netherlands, child health]

Jones, C. Allyson, David Feeny, and Ken Eng, "Test-Retest Reliability of Health Utilities Index Scores: Evidence from Hip Fracture." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 21, No. 3, August, 2005, pp 393-398. [HUI2; HUI3; Test-Retest Reliability][Canada, hip fracture]

Jones, C. Allyson, and David H. Feeny, "Agreement Between Patient and Proxy Responses on Health-Related Quality of Life After Hip Fracture." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol 53, No. 7, July, 2005, pp 1227-1233. [HUI3; Reliability][Canada, hip fracture]

Jones. C. Allyson, David Feeny, and Ken Eng, "Test-Retest Reliability of Health Utilities Index Scores: Evidence from Hip Fracture." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2005, pp 1-6, in press. [HUI2; HUI3; Test-Retest Reliability]

Kaplan, Mark S., Jean-Marie Berthelot, David H. Feeny, Bentson H. McFarland, and Saeeda Khan, "The Predictive Validity of Two Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life: Mortality in a Longitudinal Population-Based Study," Quality of Life Research, Vol. 16, No. 9, November, 2007, pp 1539-1546. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Predictive Validity][Canada, Population Health (an update)]

Kaplan, Robert M., Erik J. Groessl, Nishan Sengupta, William J. Sieber, Theodore G. Ganiats, "Comparison of Measured Utility Scores and Imputed Scores From the SF-36 in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis." Med Care, Vol. 43, No. 1, January 2005, pp 79-87.[HUI2, HUI3, Scoring, Copnstruct Validity, Responsiveness][USA, Rheumatoid Arthritis]

Keeney, Ralph L., "A Group Preference Axiomatization with Cardinal Utility." Management Science, Vol. 22, No. 2, October, 1976, pp 140-145. [Scoring; Theory]

Keeney, Ralph L., "Building Models of Values." European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 37, 1988, pp 149-157. [Scoring; Theory]

Keeney, Ralph L., and Howard Raiffa. Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition: John Wiley & Sons, 1976. [Scoring; Theory]

Keren, Ron, Susmita Pati, and Chris Feudtner, "The Generation Gap: Differences Between Children and Adults Pertinent to Economic Evaluation of Health Interventions." Pharmacoeconomics, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2004, pp 71-81. [HUI2, HUI3]

Koomen, Irene, Hein Raat, Aag Jennekens-Schinkel, Diederick E. Grobbee, John J. Roord, and Marceline van Furth, "Academic and Behavioral Limitations and Health-Related Quality of Life in School-Age Survivors of Bacterial Meningitis." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 6, August, 2005, pp 1563-1572. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][Netherlands, pediatrics]

Kopec, Jacek A., and Kevin D. Willison, "A Comparative Review of Four Preference-Weighted Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 56, No. 4, April, 2003, pp 317-325. [HUI3; Review Article]

Kopec J., Schultz S., Goel V., Williams J. "Can the Health Utilities Index measure change?" Med Care, Vol. 39 (6), 2001, pp 562-574. [HUI3, Validity][Canada, NPHS]

Lee, Todd A., William Hollingworth, and Sean D. Sullivan, "Comparison of Directly Elicited Preferences Derived from the SF-36 in Adults with Asthma." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 23, No. 4, July-August, 2003, pp 323-334. [HUI2; Scoring][USA, asthma]

Le Galès, Catherine, Catherine Buron, Nathalie Coster, Françoise Kinkor, David Feeny, William Furlong, Judy Chwalow, and Pr. Gérard Slama, "Assessment of the Multi-Attribute Preference Function for Health Utilities Index 3 in France: Preliminary Results." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 6, No. 7/8, October/December, 1997, p 678 (Abstract). [Cross-Cultural Validation; Scoring][France]

Le Galès Catherine, Catherine Buron, Nathalie Costet, Sophia Rosman, Pr. Gérard Slama, "Developpement d'un index d'etats de sante pondere par les utilites en population francaise: le Health Utilities Index." Economie et Prevision (in Press). [Cross-Cultural Validation; Scoring][France]

Le Galès Catherine, Catherine Buron, Nathalie Costet, Sophia Rosman, and Pr. Gérard Slama, "Development of a Preference-Weighted Health Status Classification System in France: the Health Utilities Index." Health Care and Management Science, Vol 5(1), 2002, pp 41-52. [HUI3; Cross-Cultural Validation; Scoring][France]

Le Galès, Catherine, Catherine Buron, Nathalie Costet, Sophia Rosman, and Gérard Slama, "The French Health Utilities Index Mark 3." Value and Health, Vol. 3, No. 2, March/April, 2000, p 103 (Abstract). [Cross-Cultural Validation; Scoring]

Lobo, Francis S., Cynthia R. Gross, and Barbara J. Matthees, "Estimation and Comparison of Dervied Preference Scores from SF-36 in Lung Transplant Patients." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 13, No. 2, March, 2004, pp 377-388. [HUI2; Construct Validity; Scoring]

Lubetkin, Erica I., and Marthe R. Gold, "Areas of Decrement in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL): Comparing the SF-12, EQ-5D, and HUI3." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 12, No. 8, December, 2003, pp 1059-1067. [HUI3; Construct Validity][USA]

Lubetkin, Erica I., and Marthe R. Gold, "Comprehensibility of Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life in Minority and Low-Income Patients." Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol. 94, No. 5, May 2002, pp 327-335. [HUI3, Construct Validity, Routine Use][USA]

Luce, R. Duncan, and Howard Raiffa, Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1957. [Theory]

Luo, Nan, Boon-Kheng Seng, Julian Thumboo, David Feeny, and Shu-Chuen Li, "A Study of the Construct Validity of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) in Patients with Schizophrenia," Quality of Life Research, Vol 15, No. 5, June 2006, pp 889-898. [HUI3; Construct Validity][Singapore, mental health]

Luo, Nan, Ling-Huo Chew, Kok-Yong Fong, Dow-Rhoon Koh, See-Cheng Ng, Kam-Hon Yoon, Sheila Vasoo, Shu-Chuen Li, and Julian Thumboo, "A Comparison of the EuroQol-5D and the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 in Patients with Rheumatic Disease." Journal of Rheumatology, Vol. 30, No. 10, October, 2003, pp 2268-2274. [HUI3; Construct Validity]

Maddigan, Sheri L., Sumit R. Majumdar, and Jeffrey A. Johnson, "Understanding the Complex Associations Between Patient-Provider Relationships, Self-Care Behaviours, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Type-2 Diabetes: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 6, August, 2005, pp 1489-1500. [HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, diabetes]

Maddigan, Sheri L., David H. Feeny, and Jeffrey A. Johnson, "Health Related Quality of Life Deficits Associated with Diabetes and Comorbidities in a Canadian National Population Health Survey." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 5, June, 2005, pp 1311-1320. [HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, diabetes]

Maddigan, Sheri L., David H. Feeny, and Jeffrey A. Johnson, "Construct Validity of the RAND- 12 and Health Utilities Index Mark 2 and 3 in Type 2 Diabetes." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, March, 2004, pp 435-448. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct validity][Canada, diabetes]

Maddigan, Sheri L., Sumit R. Majumdar, Ellen L. Toth, David H. Feeny, and Jeffrey A. Johnson, "Health-Related Quality of Life Deficits Associated with Varying Degrees of Disease Severity in Type 2 Diabetes." Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (electronic journal) (Vol 1: 78, December 15, 2003), www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/78 [HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, diabetes]

Maddigan, Sheri L., David H. Feeny, and Jeffrey A. Johnson, "A Comparison of the Health Utilities Indices Mark 2 and Mark 3 in Type 2 Diabetes." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 23, No. 6, November-December, 2003, pp 489-501. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, diabetes]

Maddigan, Sheri L., David H. Feeny, Sumit R. Majumdar, Karen B. Farris, and Jeffrey A. Johnson, "Health Utilities Index Mark 3 Demonstrated Construct Validity in a Population-Based Sample with Type 2 Diabetes." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2005, forthcoming. [HUI3; Construct Validity]

Marra, Carole A., Amir R. Rashidi, Daphne Guy, Jacek A. Kopec, Michal Abrahamowicz, John M. Esdaile, John E. Brazier, Paul R. Fortin, and Aslam H. Anis, "Are Indirect Utility Measures Reliable and Responsive in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients?" Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 5, June, 2005, pp 1333-1344. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Test-Retest Reliability; Responsiveness][Canada, arthritis]

Marra, Carlo A., John C. Woolcott, Jacek A. Kopec, Kamran Shojania, Robert Offer, John E. Brazier, John M. Esdaile, and Aslam H. Anis, "A Comparison of Generic, Indirect Utility Measures (the HUI2, HUI3, SF-6D, and the EQ-5D) and Disease-specific Instruments (the RAQoL and the HAQ) in Rheumatoid Arthritis." Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 60, No. 7, April, 2005, pp 1571-1582. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity; Interpretability; Responsiveness][Canada, Rheumatoid Arthritis]

Marra, Carlo A., John M. Esdaile, Daphne Guh, Jacek A. Kopec, John E. Brazier, Barry E. Koehler, Andrew Chalmers, and Aslam H. Anis, "A Comparison of Four Indirect Methods of Assessing Utility Values in Rheumatoid Arthritis." Medical Care, Vol. 42, No. 11, November, 2004, pp 1125-1131. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][Rheumatoid Arthritis]

Mathias, Susan D., Molly M. Bates, David J. Pasta, Miriam G. Cisternas, David Feeny, and Donald L. Patrick, "Use of the Health Utilities Index with Stroke Patients and their Caregivers." Stroke, Vol. 28, No. 10, October, 1997, pp 1888-1894. [Construct Validity; Reliability][USA, Alzheimer]

McCabe, Christopher, Katherine Stevens, Jennifer Roberts, and John Brazier, "Health State Values for the HUI2 Descriptive System: Results from a UK Survey." Health Economics, Vol. 14, No. 3, March, 2005, pp 231-244. [HUI2; Scoring; United Kingdom preferences]

McCabe, Christopher J., Katherine J. Stevens, and John E. Brazier, "Utility Scores for Health Utilities Index Mark 2: An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Mapping Functions." Medical Care, Vol. 43, No. 6, June 2005, pp 627-635. [HUI2; Scoring; United Kingdom preferences]

McDonough, Christine M., Margaret R. Grove, Tor D. Tosteson, Jon D. Lurie, Alan S. Hilbrand, and Anna N. A. Tosteson, "Comparison of EQ-5D, HUI, and SF-36 Derived Societal Health- State Values among Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) Participants." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 5, June, 2005, pp 1321-1332. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][USA, Spine]

Moy, Marilyn L., Anne L. Fuhlbrigge, Karen Blumenschein, Richard H. Chapman, Alan J. Zillich, Karen M. Kuntz, A. David Paltiel, Barrett T. Kitch, Scott T. Weiss, and Peter J. Neumann, "Association Between Preference-based Health-Related Quality of Life and Asthma Severity." Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Vol. 92, No. 9, March, 2004, pp 329- 334. [HUI3; asthma; construct validity][USA, asthma]

Mrus, Joseph M., Michael S. Yi, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Albert W. Wu, Robert Zachin, Heather Gorski, and Joel Tsevat, "Utilities Derived from Visual Analog Scale Scores in Patients with HIV/AIDS." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 23, No. 5, September-October, 2003, pp 414-421. [HUI2; Construct Validity]

Naeim, Arash, Emmett B. Keeler, and Carol M. Mangione, "Options for Handling Missing Data in the Health Utilities Index Mark 3." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 25, No. 2, March-April, 2005, pp 186-198. [HUI3; Missing Data][USA, cataract]

Naglie, Gary, George Tomlinson, Catherine Tansey, Jane Irvine, Paul Ritvo, Sandra E. Black, Morris Freedman, Michel Silberfeld, and Murray Krahn, "Utility-Based Quality of Life Measures in Alzheimer's Disease." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 15, No. 4, May, 2006, pp 631-643. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Inter-Rater Reliability; Test-Retest Reliability][Canada, Alzheimer]

Nathan, Paul C., William Furlong, John Horsman, Charmaine van Schaik, Martha Rolland, Sheila Weitzman, David Feeny, and Ronald D. Barr, "Inter-Observer Agreement of a Comprehensive Health Status Classification System for Pre-School Children among Patients with Wilms' Tumor or Advanced Neuroblastoma." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 13, No. 10, December 2004, pp 1707-1715. [Reliability; Construct Validity; Pediatric Oncology][Canada, Cancer in childhood]

Nathan, Paul C., William Furlong, Sonja DePauw, John Horsman, Charmaine van Schaik, Martha Rolland, Sheila Weitzman, David Feeny, and Ronald D. Barr, "Health Status of Young Children during Various Phases of Therapy for Advanced Neuroblastoma." Pediatric Blood and Cancer, Vol. Vol. 43, No. 6, November, 2004, pp 659-667. [CHSCS-PS; Reliability; Construct Validity; Pediatric Oncology][Canada, Cancer in childhood]

Nathan, Paul C., William Furlong, and Ronald D. Barr, "Challenges to the Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life in Children Receiving Cancer Therapy." Pediatric Blood and Cancer, Vol. 43, No. 3, September, 2004, pp 215-223. [Clinical][Canada, pediatric oncology]

Neumann, Peter J., Karen M. Kuntz, Joel Leon, Sally S. Araki, Richard C. Hermann, Ming Ann Hsu, and Milton C. Weinstein, "Health Utilities and Health Status in Alzheimer's Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study of Subjects and Caregivers." Medical Care, Vol. 37, No. 1, January, 1999, pp 27-32. [Construct Validity]

Neumann, Peter J., Eileen A. Sandberg, Sally S. Araki, Karen M. Kuntz, David Feeny, and Milton C. Weinstein, "A Comparison of HUI2 and HUI3 Utility Scores in Alzheimer's Disease", Medical Decision Making, Vol. 20, No. 4, October-December, 2000, pp 413-422. [Construct Validity; Scoring][USA; Alzheimer Disease]

Nichol, Graham, George Arthur Wells, Karen Kuntz, David Feeny, Will Longstreth, Brian Mahoney, Clay Mann, Ray Lucas, Mark Henry, Ella Huszti, and Alice Birnbaum, "Methodological Design for Economic Evaluation in Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Trial." American Heart Journal, Vol. 150, No. 2, August, 2005, pp 202-208. [HUI2; HUI3][Canada, USA, cardiac arrest]

Nichol, Michael B., Nishan Sengupta, and Denise R. Globe, "Evaluating Quality-Adjusted Life Years: Estimation of the Health Utility Index (HUI) from the SF-36." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 21, No. 2, March-April, 2001, pp 105-112. [HUI2; Construct Validity; Scoring][USA; Primary Care]

O'Brien, Bernie J., Marian Spath, Gordon Blackhouse, J. L. Severens, Paul Dorian, and John Brazier, "A View from the Bridge: Agreement Between the SF-6D Utility Algorithm and the Health Utilities Index." Health Economics, Vol. 12, No. 11, November, 2003, pp 975-981. [HUI3; scoring]

Oostenbrink, Rianne, Henriette A. Moll, and Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, "The EQ-5D and the Health Utilities Index for Permanent Sequelae after Meningitis: A Head-to-Head Comparison." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 55, No. 8, August, 2002, pp 791-799. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][The Netherlands, meningitis, pediatrics]

Patrick, Donald L., and Pennifer Erickson, Health Status and Health Policy: Quality of Life in Health Care Evaluation and Resource Allocation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. [Description of Systems]

Petrou,Stavros,"Methodological Issues Raised by Preference-Based Approaches to Measuring the Health Status of Children." Health Economics, Vol. 12, No. 8, August, 2003, pp 697-702. [HUI2; Construct Validitiy]

Pickard, A. Simon, Jeffrey A. Johnson, and David H. Feeny, "Responsiveness of Generic Health- Related Quality of Life Measures in Stroke." Quality of Life Research, 2004, in press. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness]

Pickard, A. Simon, Jeffrey A. Johnson, David H. Feeny, Ashfaq Shuaib, K. C. Carriere, and Abdul M. Nasser, "Agreement Between Patient and Proxy Assessments of Health-Related Quality of Life after Stroke using the EQ-5D and Health Utilities Index." Stroke, Vol. 35, No. 2, February 2004, pp 607-612. [HUI2; HUI3; Inter-rater Reliability][Canada, stroke]

Polsky, D., Keating, N.L., Weeks, J.C., and Schulman, K.A. "Patient choice of breast cancer treatment: impact on health state preferences." Medical Care, Vol. 40, No. 11, 2002, pp 1068-1079. [HUI3, breast cancer]

Quinn, Graham E., Velma Dobson, Saroj Saigal, Dale L. Phelps, Robert J. Hardy, Betty Tung, C. Gail Summers, Earl A. Palmer, CRYO-ROP Cooperative Group, "Health-Related Quality of Life at Age 10 Years in Very Low-Birth-Weight Children with and without Threshold Retinopathy of Prematurity." Archives of Ophthalmology, Vol. 122, No. 11, November, 2004, pp 1659-1666. [HUI3; Construct Validity][USA, vision, prematurity]

Raat, Hein, Gouke J. Bonsel, Marie-Louise Essik-Bot, Jeanne M. Landgraf, and Reinoud J. B. J. Gemke, "Reliability and Validity of Comprehensive Health Status Measures in Children: The Child Health Questionnaire in Relation to the Health Utilities Index." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 55, No. 1, January, 2002, pp 67-76. [HUI2, Reliability, Construct Validity]

Raat, Hein, Gouke Bonsel, Reinoud Gemke, Erik Verrips, Paul Krabbe, and Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, "Feasibility and Reliability of a Mailed Questionnaire to Obtain Visual Analogue Scale Valuations for Health States Defined by the Health Utilities Index Mark 3." Medical Care, Vol. 42, No. 1, January, 2004, pp 13-18. [HUI3, Generalizability, Scoring][Netherlands, pediatrics]

Raina, Parminder, Brenda Bonnett, David Waltner-Toews, Christel Woodward, and Tom Abernathy, "How Reliable are Selected Scales from Population-based Health Surveys? An Analysis Among Seniors." Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 90, No. 1, January-February, 1999, pp 60-64. [Reliability of selected HUI3 items]

Rasanen, Pirjo, Eija Roine, Harri Sintonen, Virpi Semberg-Konttinen, Olli-Pekka Ryynanen, Risto Roine, "Use of Quality-Adjusted Life Years for the Estimation of Effectiveness of Health Care: A Systematic Literature Review." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring, 2006, pp 235-241. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article]

1. Revicki, Dennis A., David Feeny, Timothy L. Hunt, and Bernard Cole, "Analyzing Oncology Clinical Trials Data using the Q-TWiST Method: Clinical Importance and Sources for Health State Preference Data." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 15, No. 3, April, 2006, pp 411-423;
2. Richard Stephens, "Clinically Important Differences in Q-TWiST - One Twist Too Many?" Quality of Life Research, Vol. 15, No. 3, April, 2006, pp 425-426;
3. Revicki, Dennis A., David Feeny, Timothy L. Hunt, and Bernard Cole, "Clinically Important Differences in Q-TWiST - One TWiST Too Many, or TWiST and Shout?" Quality of Life Research, Vol. 15, No. 3, April, 2006, pp 427-428. [HUI2; HUI3; Interpretation]

Rizzo, John A., Steven Pashko, Rebecca Friedkin, John Mullahy, and Jody L. Sindelar, "Linking the Health Utilities Index to National Medical Expenditure Survey Data." PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 13, No. 5, Part 1, May, 1998, pp 531-541. [Construct Validity]

Rizzo, John A. and Jody L. Sindelar, "Linking Health-Related Quality-of-Life Indicators to Large National Data Sets." PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 16, No. 5, Part 1, November, 1999, pp 473-482. [Construct Validity]

Robertson CMT, Watt JM, Joffe AR, Murphy DB, Nagy JM, McLean DE, Pain KS, Saunders LD. "Childhood morbidity after severe traumatic brain injury: Increased detection with the Multiattribute Health Status Classification." Pediatr Crit Care Med, Vol. 2, No. 2, April, 2001, pp 145-150. [HUI2, Content Validity, Inter-rater Agreement] [Canada, Pediatrics, Brain Injury]

Ruiz, Miguel, Javier Rejas, Javier Soto, Antonio Pardo, and Irene Rebollo, "Adaptación y validación del Health Utilities Index Mark 3 al castellano y baremos de corrección en la población española." Medicina clinica (Barcelona), Vol. 120, No. 3, 2003, pp 89-96. [HUI3; Scoring; Generalizability][Spain]

Saigal, Saroj, Peter Rosenbaum, Barbara Stoskopf, Lorraine Hoult, William Furlong, David Feeny, and Ronald Hagan, "Development, Reliability and Validity of New Measure of Overall Health for Pre-School Children." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, February, 2005, pp 243-257. [HUI2 and HUI3 for children under the age of 5][Canada, pediatrics]

Samsa, Greg, David Edelman, Margaret Rothman, G. Rhys Williams, Joseph Lipscomb, and David Matchar, "Determining Clinically Important Differences in Health Status Measures: A General Approach with Illustration Using the Health Utilities Index Mark II." PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2, February 15, 1999, pp 141-155. [Interpretability][USA, Stroke]

Schunemann, Holger J., Lauren Griffith, David Stubbing, Roger Goldstein, and Gordon H. Guyatt, "A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Measurement Properties of 2 Direct Preference Instruments Administered with and without Hypothetical Marker States." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 23, No. 2, March-April, 2003, pp 140-149. [HUI3, Construct Validity, Responsiveness]

Sengupta, Nishan, Michael B. Nichol, Joanne Wu, and Denise Globe, "Mapping the SF-12 to the HUI3 and VAS in Managed Care Population." Medical Care, Vol. 42, No. 9, September, 2004, pp 927-937. [HUI3; Scoring]

Shimoda, Sandra, Beatriz de Camargo, John Horsman, William Furlong, Luiz Fernando Lopes, Adriana Seber, Ronald D. Barr, "Translation and cultural adaptation of Health Uilities Index (HUI) Mark 2 (HUI2) and Mark 3 (HUI3) with application to survivors of childhood cancer in Brazil." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, June, 2005, pp 1407-1412. [HUI2, HUI3, translation, reliability, validity][Brazil, childhood cancer]

Silberfeld, Michael, Sergio Rueda, Murray Krahn, and Gary Naglie, "Content Validity for Dementia of Three Generic Preference Based Health Related Quality of Life Instruments." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 11, No. 1, February, 2002, pp 71-79. [HUI2; HUI3; Content Validity][Canada; Dementia]

Speechley, Kathy Nixon, Elizabeth Maunsell, Marie Desmeules, Dena Schanzer, Jeanne Landgraf, David H. Feeny, and Maru E. Barrera, "Mutual Concurrent Validity of the Child Health Questionnaire and the Health Utilities Index: An Exploratory Analysis Using Survivors of Childhood Cancer." International Journal of Cancer, Supplement 12, December, 1999, pp 95-105. [Construct Validity][Canada, Childhood Cancers]

Stevens, Katherine, Christopher McCabe, John Brazier, and Jennifer Roberts, "Multi-attribute Utility Function or Statistical Inference Models: A Comparison of Health State Valuation Models using HUI2 Health State Classification System." Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 26, No. 5, September, 2007, pp 992-1002. [HUI2; Scoring Function]

Sun, Jian, "Adjusting Distributions of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 Utility Scores of Health-Related Quality of Life." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 12, No. 1, February, 2003, pp 11-20. [HUI3; Construct Validity]

Supina, Alison L., David H. Feeny, Linda J. Carroll, and Jeffrey A. Johnson, "Misinterpretation with Norm-Based Scoring of Health Status in Adults with Type-1 Diabetes." Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (electronic journal) (Vol 4:15, March 16, 2006) http://www.hqlo.com/content/4/1/15 [HUI3; Construct Validity][Diabetes, Canada]

Thoma, Achilleas, Sheila Sprague, Karen Veltri, Eric Duku, and William Furlong, "Methodology and Measurement Properties of Health-Related Quality of Life Instruments: A Prospective Study of Patients Undergoing Breast Reduction Surgery." Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (electronic journal), Vol. 3, 44, July 22, 2005. http://www.hqlo.com/content/3/1/44. [HUI2; HUI3; Test-retest Reliability; Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Canada, breast reduction surgery]

Torrance, George W., William Furlong, and David Feeny, "Health Utility Estimation." Expert Reviews in Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2002, pp 99-108. [Review Paper]

Torrance, George W., "Multiattribute Utility Theory as a Method of Measuring Social Preferences for Health States in Long-Term Care," in Robert L. Kane and Rosalie A. Kane, eds., Values and Long-Term Care. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books Division of D. C. Health, 1982, pp 127-156. [Description of Systems; Scoring; Theory]

Torrance, George W., Michael H. Boyle, Sargent P. Horwood, "Application of Multi-Attribute Utility Theory to Measure Social Preferences for Health States." Operations Research, Vol. 30, No. 6, November-December, 1982, pp 1042-1069. [Scoring; Theory][Canada]

Torrance, George W., William Furlong, David Feeny, and Michael Boyle, "Multi-Attribute Preference Functions: Health Utilities Index." PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 7, No. 6, June, 1995, pp 503-520. [Scoring; Theory][Canada]

Torrance, George W., Yueming Zhang, David Feeny, William Furlong, and Ronald Barr, "Multi-Attribute Preference Functions for A Comprehensive Health Status Classification System". McMaster University, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper No. 92-18, 1992. [Scoring; Theory][Canada]

Torrance, George W., David H. Feeny, William J. Furlong, Ronald D. Barr, Yueming Zhang, and Qinan Wang, "Multi-Attribute Preference Functions for A Comprehensive Health Status Classification System: Health Utilities Index Mark 2." Medical Care, Vol. 34, No. 7, July 1996, pp 702-722. [Scoring; Theory][Canada]

Torrance, George W., "Measurement of Health State Utilities for Economic Appraisal - A Review." Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1986, pp 1-30. [Description of Systems; Scoring; Theory]

Torrance, George W., and David Feeny, "Utilities and Quality-Adjusted Life Years." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1989, pp 559-575. [Theory]

Torrance, George W., David Feeny, William Furlong, "Visual Analogue Scales: Do They Have a Role in the Measurement of Preferences for Health States?" Medical Decision Making, Vol. 21, No. 4, July-August, 2001, pp 329-334. [Scoring; Measurement; Theory]

Verrips, G.H.W., M.C. Stuifbergen, A. L den Ouden, G.J. Bonsel, R.J.B.J. Gemke, N. Paneth, and S.P. Verloove-Vanhorick, "Measuring Health Status Using the Health Utilities Index: Agreement Between Raters and Between Modalities of Administration." Journal of clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 54, No. 5, May, 2001, pp 475-481. [HUI3; Inter-rater Reliability; Inter-mode Reliability; Child Health][Netherlands]

von Neumann, John, and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. [Theory]

Wang Q, Furlong W, Feeny D, Torrance G, Barr R. "How robust is the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 utility function?" Medical Decision Making, Vol. 22, No. 4, July/August, 2002, pp 350-358. [Reliability, Generalizability, Scoring].

Wee, Hwee-Lin, Yin-Bun Cheung, Wai-Chong Loke, Chee-Bank Tan, Mun-Hong Chow, Shu-Chuen Li, Kok-Yong Fong, David Feeny, David Machin, Nan Luo, and Julian Thumboo, "The Association of Body Mass Index with Health-Related Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population," Value in Health, forthcoming. [HUI3; Construct Validity][Singapore, Clinical and Population Health, obesity]

Wiebe, Samuel, Suzan Matijevic, Michael Eliasziw, and P. A. Derry, "Clinically Important Change in Quality of Life in Epilepsy." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Vol. 73, No. 2, August, 2002, pp 116-120. [HUI3; Interpretation; Responsiveness][Canada, epilepsy]

Wiebe, Samuel, Michael Eliasziw, and Suzan Matijevic, "Changes in Quality of Life in Epilepsy: How Large Must They Be to be Real?" Epilepsia, Vol. 42, No. 1, January, 2001, pp 113-118. [HUI3; Interpretation; Reliability; Responsiveness][Canada, epilepsy]

Wodchis, Walter P., Colleen J. Maxwell, Adriana Venturini, Jennifer D. Walker, Jenny Zhang, David B. Hogan, and David H. Feeny, "Study of Observed and Self-Reported HRQL in Older Frail Adults Found Group-Level Congruence and Individual-Level Differences." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 60, No. 5, May, 2007, pp 502-511. [HUI2; Construct Validity; Inter-rater Reliability]

Wodchis, Walter P., John P. Hirdes, and David H. Feeny, "A Health-Related Quality of Life Measure Based on the Minimum Data Set." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, forthcoming. [HUI2, Construct Validity] [Canada, Long-term Care]

Young, Nancy L., J. Ivan Williams, Karen K. Yoshida, and James G. Wright, "Measurement Properties of the Activities Scale for Kids." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 53, No. 2, February, 2000, pp 125-137. [HUI3; Construct Validity]

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Clinical and Evaluative Studies Using HUI [Clinical; Evaluative; Reliability; Responsiveness; Validity] (Listed alphabetically by 1st author)

Adachi, J. D., G. Ioannidis, L. Pickard, C. Berger, J. C. Prior, L. Joseph, D. A. Hanley, W. P. Olszynski, T. M. Murray, T. Anastassiades, W. Hopman, J. P. Brown, S. Kirland, C. Joyce, A. Papioannou, S. Poliquin, A. Tennenhouse, and E. A. Papadimitropoulos, "The Association Between Osteoporotic Fractures and Health-Related Quality of Life as Measured by the Health Utilities Index in the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos)." Osteoporosis International, Vol. 14, No. 11, November, 2003, pp 895-904. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, osteoporosis]

Albertsen, Peter C., Robert F. Nease, and Arnold L. Potosky, "Assessment of Patient Preferences among Men with Prostate Cancer." Journal of Urology, Vol. 159, No. 1, January, 1998, pp 158-163. [Clinical][USA, Prostate Cancer]

Alessi, Daniela, Elisa Dama, Ronald Barr, Maria Luisa Mosso, Milena Maule, Corrado Magani, Guido Pastore, and Franco Merletti, "Health-Related Quality of Life of Long-term Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Population-based study from the Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont, Italy." European Journal of Cancer, 2007, in press.  [HUI3; Construct Validity][Italy, childhood cancer surivors]

Alexander, Michael, William Berger, Patricia Buchholz, John Walt, Caroline Burk, Jeff Lee, Rob Arbuckle, and Linda Abetz, "The Reliability, Validity, and Preliminary Responsiveness of the Eye Allergy Patient Impact Questionnaire (EAPIQ)." Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Vol. 3, No. 67, October 31, 2005 (electronic journal) [http://www.hqlo.com/content/3/1/67 [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][USA, Canada, eye allergy]

Asakawa, Keiko, Darryl Rolfson, Ambikaikapan Senthilselvan, David Feeny, and Jeffrey A. Johnson, "Health Utilities Index Mark 3 Showed Valid in Alzheimer Disease, Arthritis, and Cataracts." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2007, in press. [HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada]

Avorn, Jerry, Josh Benner, Ian Ford, David A. Ganz, Allan Gaw, Robert J. Glynn, Joseph Jackson, A. Margot Lagaay, SebastianSchneeweiss, Thomas Walley, and Philip S. Wang, "Measuring the Cost-Effectiveness of Lipid-lowering Drugs in the Elderly: The Outcomes Research and Economic Analysis Components of the PROSPER Trial." Controlled Clinical Trials, Vol. 23, No. 6, December, 2002, pp 757-773. [HUI3][USA, Scotland, Ireland, heart disease]

Baladi, Jean-Francois, Devidas Menon, and Nicholas Otten, "An Economic Evaluation of Finasteride for Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia." PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 9, No. 5, May, 1996, pp 443-454. [Evaluative][Canada]

Barr, Ronald D., and Alessandra Sala, "Quality-Adjusted Survival: A Rigorous Assessment of Cure after Cancer During Childhood and Adolescence." Pediatric Blood and Cancer, Vol. 44, No. 3, March, 2005, pp 201-204. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article][pediatric oncology]

Barr, Ronald D., David Feeny, and William Furlong, "Economic Evaluation of Treatments for Cancer in Childhood." European Journal of Cancer, Vol. 40, No. 9, June, 2004, pp 1335-1344. [HUI2; HUI3][childhood cancer]

Barr, Ronald D., Julia Sek, John Horsman, William Furlong,, Mahassen Saleh, Mohan Pai, and Irwin Walker, "Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life Associated with van Willebrand Disease." American Journal of Hematology, Vol. 73, No. 2, June 2003, pp 108-114. [HUI2; HUI3; Clinical; Construct Validity][Canada, von Willebrand disease]

Barr RD, Saleh M, Furlong W, Horsman J, Sek J, Pai M, Walker I. "Health status and health-related quality of life associated with hemophilia." Am J Hematology,Vol. 71, 2002, pp 152-160. [HUI2, HUI3, Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Canada, Hemophilia]

Barr, Ronald. D., A.Gonzalez, M. Longchong, W. Furlong, M. P. Vizcaino, J. Horsman, L. Fu, and L. Castillo, "Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life in Survivors of Cancer in Childhood in Latin America: A MISPHO Feasibility Study." International Journal of Oncology, Vol. 19, No. 2, August, 2001, pp 413-421. [HUI2; HUI3; Clinical; Construct Validity]

Barr, Ronald D., Dawn Chalmers, Sonja DePauw, William Furlong, Sheila Weitzman, and David Feeny, "Health-Related Quality of Life in Survivors of Wilms' Tumor and Advanced Neuroblastoma: A Cross-Sectional Study." Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 18, No. 18, September 15, 2000, pp 3280-3287. [HUI2; HUI3; Clinical; Construct-Validity][Canada; Wilms Tumor; Neuroblastoma]

Barr, Ronald D., William Furlong, Susan Dawson, Anthony C. Whitton, Ingrid Strautmanis, Mohan Pai, David Feeny, and George W. Torrance, "An Assessment of Global Health Status in Survivors of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Childhood." American Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1993, pp 284-290. [Clinical; Construct Validity][Canada, ALL]

Barr, Ronald D., William Furlong, Jennifer Henwood, David Feeny, John Wegener, Irwin Walker, and Michael Brain, "Economic Evaluation of Allogenic Bone Marrow Transplantation ? A Rudimentary Model to Generate Estimates for the Timely Formulation of Clinical Policy." Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 14, No. 5, May, 1996, pp 1413-1420. [Clinical; Evaluative][Canada]

Barr, Ronald D., David Feeny, William Furlong, Sheila Weitzman, and George W. Torrance, "A Preference-Based Approach to Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Cancer." International Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Vol. 2, 1995, pp 305-315. [Clinical; Construct Validity][Canada]

Barr, Ronald D., Mohan K. R. Pai, Sheila Weitzman, David Feeny, William Furlong, Peter Rosenbaum, and George W. Torrance, " A Multi-Attribute Approach to Health Status Measurement and Clinical Management - Illustrated by an Application to Brain Tumors in Childhood." International Journal of Oncology, Vol. 4, 1994, pp 639-648. [Clinical; Construct Validity; Reliability][Canada, Pediatric, Brain Tumour]

Barr, Ronald D., Claire Petrie, William Furlong, Marilyn Rothney, and David Feeny, "Health-Related Quality of Life during Post-Induction Chemotherapy in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Remission: An Influence of Corticosteroid Therapy." International Journal of Oncology, Vol. 11, 1997, pp 333-339. [Clinical; Construct Validity; Responsivness][Canada, Pediatric, ALL]

Barr, Ronald D., Toni Simpson, Anthony Whitton, Bonnie Rush, William Furlong, and David H. Feeny, "Health-Related Quality of Life in Survivors of Tumours of the Central Nervous System in Childhood - A Preference-Based Approach to Measurement in a Cross-Sectional Study." European Journal of Cancer, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1999, pp 248-255. [Clinical; Construct Validity; Cross-Cultural Validation][Canada, Pediatric, Brain Tumour]

Bartman, Barbara A., Mitchell J. Rosen, Douglas D. Bradham, Julie Weissman, Marc Hochberg, and Dennis A. Revicki, "Relationship Between Health Status and Utility Measures in Older Claudicants." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, January, 1998, pp 67-73. [HUI2; Clinical; Construct Validity]

Barton, Garry R., John Bankart, Adrian C. Davis, and Quentin A. Summerfield, "Comparing Utility Scores Before and After Hearing-Aid Provision: Results According to the EQ-5D, HUI3, and SF-6D." Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004, pp 103-105. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness]

Barton, Garry R., John Bankart, and Adrian C. Davis, "A Comparison of the Quality of Life of Hearing-Impaired People as Estimated by Three Different Utility Measures." International Journal of Audiology, Vol. 44, No. 3, March, 2005, pp 157-163. [HUI3; Construct Validity]

Bayoumi, Ahmed M., and Donald A. Redelmeir, "Economic Methods for Measuring the Quality of Life Associated with HIV Infection." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 8, No. 6, September, 1999, pp 471-480. [Clinical; Construct Validity][Canada, AIDS]

Beaton, Dorcas E., Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, and Claire Bombardier, "Evaluating Changes in Health Status: Reliability and Responsiveness of Five Generic Health Status Measures in Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorder." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 50, No. 1, 1997, pp 79-93. [Clinical; Reliability; Responsiveness]

Bell, Chaim, Sally S. Araki, and Peter J. Neumann, "The Association Between Caregiver Burden and Carregiver Health-Related Quality of Life in Alzheimer Disease." Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, Vol. 15, No. 3, July-September, 2001, pp 129-136. [HUI2; Construct Validity][USA, Alzheimer's disease]

Bennett, Kathryn J., George W. Torrance, Lea-Anne Moran, Frank Smith, and Charlie H. Goldsmith, "Health State Utilities in Knee Replacement Surgery: The Development and Evaluation of McKnee." Journal of Rheumatology, Vol. 24, No. 9, 1997, pp 1796-1805. [Clinical][USA, Total Knee Replacement]

Bichey, Bradford G., Jon M Hoversland, Michael K. Wynne, and Richard T. Miyamoto, "Changes in Quality of Life and the Cost-Utility Associated with Cochlear Implantation in Patients with Large Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome." Otology & Neurotology, Vol. 23, May, 2002, pp 323-327. [HUI3; Construct Validity][USA, hearing]

Bier, Jo-Ann Blaymore, Anthony Prince, Michelle Tremont, and Michael Msall, "Medical, Functional, and Social Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life in Individuals with Myelomeningocele." Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Vol. 47, No. 9, September, 2005, pp 609-612. [HUI2; Construct Validity][USA, pediatrics]

Billson, Amanda L. and David A. Walker. "Assessment of Health Status in Survivors of Cancer." Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol. 70, No. 3 March 1994, pp 200-204. [Clinical; Construct Validity][United Kingdom, Pediatirc, Cancers]

Blanchard, Chris, David Feeny, Jeffrey L. Mahon, robert Bourne, Cecil Rorabeck, Larry Stitt, and susan Webster-Bogaert, "Is the Health Utilities Index Valid in Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients?," Quality of Life Research, Vol. 13, No. 2, March, 2004, pp 339-348. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct validity] [Canada, hip disease]

Blanchard, Chris, Isabelle C, and David Feeny, "Comparing Short Form and RAND Physical and Mental Health Summary Scores: Results from Total Hip Arthroplasty and High-Risk Primary-Care Patients," International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2003, pp 1-7. [HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, clinical, hip disease, osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty]

Blanchard, Chris, David Feeny, Jeffrey L. Mahon, Robert Bourne, Cecil Rorabeck, Larry Stitt, and Susan Webster-Bogaert, "Is the Health Utilities Index Valid in Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients?," Quality of Life Research (2003), in press. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty]

Blanchard, Chris, David Feeny, Jeffrey L. Mahon, Robert Bourne, Cecil Rorabeck, Larry Stitt, and Susan Webster-Bogaert, "Is the Health Utilities Index Responsive in Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients,?" Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 56, No. 11, November 2003, pp 1046-1054. [HUI2; HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Canada, clinical, hip disease, osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty]

Bosch, Johanna L., Elkan f. Halpern, and G. Scott Gazelle, "Comparison of Preference-Based Utilities of the Short-Form 36 Health Survey and Health Utilities Index Before and After Treatment of Patients with Intermittent Claudication." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 22, No. 5, September-October 2002, pp 403-409. [HUI2, HUI3, Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Netherlands, Intermittent Claudication]

Bosch, Johanna L., Maria G. M. Hunink, "The Relationship Between Descriptive and Valuation Quality-of-Life Measures in Patients with Intermittent Claudication." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 16, No. 3, July-September, 1996, pp 217-225. [Clinical; Construct Validity][Netherlands, Peripheral Artery Disease]

Bosch, Johanna L. and M. G. Myriam Hunink, "Comparison of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) and the EuroQol EQ-5D in Patients Treated for Intermittent Claudication." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2001, pp 591-601. [Clinical; Construct Validity; Responsiveness] [The Netherlands][Peripheral vascular disease]

Bosch, Johanna L., Eric Tetteroo, Willem P. T. M. Mali, Maria G. M. Hunink, for the Dutch Iliac Stent Trial Group, "Iliac Arterial Occlusive Disease: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Stent Placement versus Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty." Radiology, Vol. 208, No. 3, September, 1988, pp 641-648. [Clinical; Construct Validity][Netherlands, Peripheral Artery Disease]

Bosch, Johanna L., Yolanda van der Graaf, Maria G. M. Hunink, for the Dutch Iliac Stent Trial Group, "Health-Related Quality of Life after Angioplasty and Stent Placement in Patients with Iliac Artery Occlusive Disease: Results from a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial." Circulation, Vol. 99, No. 24, June 22, 1999, pp 3155-3160. [Clinical; Construct Validity][Netherlands, Peripheral Artery Disease]

Bosch, J. L., E. E. E. van Wijck, P. L. Baum, M. C. Donaldson, J. J. A. M. van den Dungen, and M. G. M. Hunink, "The McMaster Health Utility Index (II) and the EuroQol 5D Assessed in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease in the United States and the Netherlands." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 16, No. 4, October-December, 1996, p 450 (Abstract). [Clinical; Construct Validity][Netherlands, USA, Preipheral Artery Disease]

Boyle, Michael H., George W. Torrance, John C. Sinclair, and Sargent P. Horwood, "Economic Evaluation of Neonatal Intensive Care of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants." New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 308, 1983, pp 1330-1337. [Clinical; Evaluative][Canada, Neonatal Intensive Care]

Brady, Bruce, Laura McAuley, and vijay K. Shukla, "Economic Evaluation of Zanamiriv for the Treatment of Influenza," Ottawa: Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment Technology, Report No. 13, January, 2001. [HUI3, Clinical][Canada, Influenza]

Brazier, John, Jennifer Roberts, Aki Tsuchiya, and Jan Busschbach, "A Comparison of the EQ-5D and SF-6D Across Seven Patient Groups." Health Economics, Vol. 13, No. 9, September, 2004, pp 873-884. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness]

Brehaut, Jamie C., Dafna E. Kohen, Parminder Raina, Stephen D. Walter, Dianne J. Russell, Marilyn Swinton, Maureen O'Donnell, Peter Rosenbaum, "The Health of Primary Caregivers of Children With Cerebral Palsy: How Does It Compare With That of Other Canadian Caregivers?" Pediatrics, Vol. 114, 2004, pp 182-191. [HUI3; construct validity][Caregivers, Cerebral Palsy, Canada]

Brunner, H. I., D. Maker, B. Grundland, N. L. Young, V. Blanchette, A-M Stain, and B. M. Feldman, "Preference-Based Measurement of Health-Related of Life (HRQL) in Children with Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSKDs)." Medical Decision Making, Vol. 23, No. 4, July-August, 2003, pp 314-322. [HUI3; Clinical; Construct Validity][Canada, children, musculoskeletal disorders]

Cheng, André K., Haya R. Rubin, Neil R. Powe, Nancy K. Mellon, Howard W. Francis, and John K. Niparko, "Cost-Utility Analysis of the Coclear Implant in Children." Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 284. No. 7, August 16, 2000, pp 850-856. [HUI3, Clincal, Evaluative][USA, Children, Hearing]

Cheng, André K., and John K. Niparko, "Cost-Utility Analysis of the Coclear Implant in Adults." Archives of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, Vol. 125. No. 11, November, 1999, pp 1214-1218-856. [HUI3, Clincal, Evaluative][USA, Adults, Hearing]

Ching, Shim, Achilles Thoma, Randi E. McCabe, and Martin M. Antony, "Measuring Outcomes in Aesthetic Surgery: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vol. 111, January, 2003, pp 469-480. [HUI; Clinical][surgery]

Chong, Christopher A. K. Y., Anar gulamhussein, E. Jenny Heathcote, Les Lilly, Morris Sherman, Gary Naglie, and Murray Krahn, "Health-State Utilities and Quality of Life in Hepatitis C Patients." American Journal of Gastroenterlogy, Vol. 98, No. 3, March, 2003, pp630-638. [HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, hepatitis]

Comerota, Anthony J. Richard C. Throm, Susan D. Mathias, Signe Hauhgton, and Mark Mewissen, "Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Iliofemoral Deep Vein Thrombosis Improves Health-Related Quality of Life." Journal of Vascular Surgery, Vol 32, No. 1, July, 2000, pp 130-137. [HUI2; Clinical; Evaluative]

Conner-Spady, Barbara, and Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, "Variation in the Estimation of Quality- Adjusted Life-Years by Different Preference-based Instruments." Medical Care, Vol. 41, No. 7, July, 2003, pp 791-801. [HUI3; Construct Validity; Responsiveness][Canada, musculoskeletal disease]

Cox, Cheryl L., Shelly Lensing, Shesh N. Rai, Pam Hinds, Elizabeth Burghen, and Ching-Hon Pui, "Proxy Assessment of Quality of Life in Pediatric Clinical Trials: Application of the Health Utilities Index 3." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 4, May, 2005, pp 1045-1056. [HUI3; Reliability; Inter-Rater Reliability; Proxy Assessment][USA, childhood cancer]

Cranney, Ann, Douglas Coyle, Ba Pham, Jacqueline Tetroe, George Wells, Elaine Jolly, and Peter Tugwell, "The Psychometric Properties of Patient Preferences in Osteoporosis." Journal of Rheumatology, Vol. 28, No. 1, January, 2001, pp 132-137. [HUI2; Construct Validity]

De Civita, Mirella, Dean Reiger, Abul H. Alamgir, Aslam H. Anis, Mark J. FitzGerald, and Carlo A. Marra, "Evaluating Health-Related Quality-of-Life Studies in Paediatric Populations: Some Conceptual, Methodological Developmental Considerations and Recent Applications." Pharmacoeconomics, Vol. 23, No. 7, 2005, pp 659-685. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article][pediatrics]

Degl'innocenti, Alessio, Gordon H. Guyatt, Ingela Wiklund, Diane Heels-Ansdell, David Armstrong, Carlo A. Fallone, Lisa Tanser, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Samer El-Dika, Naoki Chiba, Alan N. Barkun, Peggy Austin, and Holger J. Schunemann, "The Influence of Demographic Factors and Health-Related Quality of Life on Treatment Satisfaction in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treated with Esomeprazole." Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (electronic journal), (Vol. 3: 4, January, 13, 2005), http://www.hqlo.com/content/3/1/4 [HUI3; Construct Validity]

de Keizer, N. F., G. J. Bonsel, and R. J. B. M. Gemke, "Health Status Prediction in Critically Ill Children: A Pilot Study Introducing Standardized Health Ratios." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, March, 1997, 192-199. [Clinical; Predictive Validity][Netherlands, Pediatric]

Edelman, David, Rhys Williams, Margaret Rothman, and Gregory P. Samsa, "A Comparison of Three Health Status Measures in Primary Care Outpatients." Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 12, December, 1999, pp 759-762. [HUI2; Clinical; Construct Validity]

El-Dika, Samer, Gordon H. Guyatt, David Armstrong, Alessio Degl'innocenti, Ingela Wiklund, Carlo A. Fallone, Lisa Tanser, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Peter Wahlqvist, and Holger J. Schunemann, "The Impact of Illness in Patients with Moderate to Severe Gastro-esophageal Reflux Disease." BMC Gastroenterology, Vol. 5, No. 23, July 10, 2005 (electronic journal) [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/5/23] [HUI3; Construct Validity][Canada, gastroenterology]

Espallargues, Mireia, Carolyn J. Czoski-Murray, Nicholas J. Bansback, Jill Carlton, Grace M. Lewis, Lindsey A. Hughes, Christopher S. Brand, and John E. Brazier, "The Impact of Age- Related Macular Degenerationon Health Status Utility Values." Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Vol. 46, No. 11, November, 2005, pp 4016-4023. [HUI3; Construct Validity][UK, Vision]

Ettema, Teake P., Rose-Marie Droes, Jacomine de Lange, Gideon J. Mellenbergh, and Miel W. Ribbe, "A Review of Quality of Life Instruments Used in Dementia." Quality of Life Research, Vol. 14, No. 3, April, 2005, pp 675-686. [HUI2; HUI3; Review Article][mental health]

Feeny, David, Chris Blanchard, Jeffrey L. Mahon, Robert Bourne, Cecil Rorabeck, Larry Stitt, and Susan Webster-Bogaert, "Comparing Community-Preference Based and Direct Standard Gamble Utility Scores: Evidence from Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring, 2003, pp 362-372. [HUI2; HUI3; Scoring][Canada, osteoarthritis, total hip arthroplasty]

Feeny, David, William Furlong, Saroj Saigal, and Jian Sun,"Comparing Directly Measured Standard Gamble Scores to HUI2 and HUI3 Utility Scores: Group and Individual-Level Comparisons." Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 58, No. 4, February, 2004, pp 799-809. [HUI2; HUI3; Scoring]

Feeny, David H., Alison Leiper, Ronald D. Barr, William Furlong, George W. Torrance, Peter Rosenbaum, and Sheila Weitzman, "The Comprehensive Assessment of Health Status in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: Application to High-Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia." British Journal of Cancer, Vol. 67, 1993, pp 1047-1052. [Clinical; Construct Validity][United Kingdom