Measuring Disease

"Anyone seeking to identify potentially useful disease-specific measures for their study will find this a good starting point." Quality of Life Research Praise for the first edition: "...text that is remarkably detailed and comprehensive in its coverage of a range of quality of life measures...Bowling's book provides an important step towards the development of measures of quality of life that are both sensitive and rigorous." - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health "...a most useful and comprehensive addition to the literature...The book is readable, well referenced and up to date. I recommend any group that wishes to attempt to measure health outcomes to consider adding this book to their resource list." - Australian Health Review "...this book gives an in-depth and comprehensive insight in health-related quality of life scales...a most valuable guide in helping the reader search for the scale with the best psychometric properties. Furthermore, this book will contribute highly to the improvement of disease-specific measurement of quality of life and to the comparability of measurement results." - Journal of Health Psychology This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of Measuring Disease. It supplements the author's previous work Measuring Health (2nd edition). In assessing the outcome of disease and treatments, measurement scales must be relevant to their specific effects, necessitating the use of disease specific questionnaires. There is now considerable interest in measures which are multi-dimensional, and which are more sensitive than generic measures to specific disease and treatment effects. This book reviews disease specific measures of quality of life and, where relevant, popularly used symptom and single dimension scales. It is intended as a source book for researchers, medical and health care practitioners who are involved in the measurement of the outcome of health services.

ISBN 0335206417   Pages 420 ISBN13 9780335206414 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Open University Press   Weight (grammes) 898 Imprint Open University Press   Published in Milton Keynes Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780335192250 Publication date 01 May 2001   Height (mm) 245 Library of Congress RA407.B68, RA407.B68   Width (mm) 188 DEWEY 362.1042   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		List of Abbreviations
1		Health-Related Quality of Life: Conceptual Meaning, Use and Measurement
		Background: the 'quality of life'
		What is quality of life and health-related quality of life?
		Health-related quality of life and health
		Quality of life assessment and research on health care outcomes
		Utility assessments and quality of life assessment
		Who should rate quality of life?
		Patients' preferences
		Disease-specific, domain-specific and generic measurement scales
		Methodological issues
2		Cancers
		The Importance of measuring the quality of life of cancer patients
		What has been measured in studies of the quality of life of cancer patients?
		What should be measured?
		Recommended measurement scales
		Review articles on quality of life measurement and cancer
		The domains of measurement
		The measurement scales
		Scales measuring physical functioning, pain and symptoms
		Functional status scales used with cancer patients
		The Karnofsky Performance Index (KPI)
		Other versions of the Karnofsky Scale
		The WHO Functional Scale
		The Zubrod Scale (or the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status Rating Scale: ECOG PSR)
		More...

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