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Comparison of howRU and EQ-5D measures of health-related quality of life in an outpatient clinic

Author(s) -

Tim Benson,

Henry Potts,

Justin M Whatling,

David Patterson

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of innovation in health informatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2058-4563

pISSN - 2058-4555

DOI - 10.14236/jhi.v21i1.9

Subject(s) - readability , eq 5d , medicine , ceiling effect , quality of life (healthcare) , health related quality of life , physical therapy , outpatient visits , gerontology , disease , health care , alternative medicine , computer science , nursing , pathology , economics , economic growth , programming language

This paper reports on a head-to-head study of howRU and EQ-5D on patients with cardiovascular disease. howRU is a short generic measure of health-related quality of life comprising 39 words, designed for routine use, which we compare with EQ-5D (230 words). Patients attending a clinic completed both instruments. Completed data were available for 116 patients, 51% female, mean age 56 and SD 20. howRU is shorter, has better readability statistics, a higher completion rate, a wider range of states used and a smaller ceiling effect than EQ-5D. The correlations of howRU with EQ-5D are similar to those of EQ-5D with other validated instruments.

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