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Measurement of the Quality of Life for Economic Evaluation and the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) Mark 2 Instrument
Author(s) -
Richardson Jeff,
Atherton Day Neil,
Peacock Stuart,
Iezzi Angelo
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2004.00308.x
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , quality of life (healthcare) , unit (ring theory) , measure (data warehouse) , management science , computer science , operations research , business , economics , engineering , psychology , medicine , nursing , data mining , philosophy , mathematics education , epistemology
Including the quality of life in the economic assessment of health and medical services is well established in the literature and a number of multi-attribute utility (MAU) instruments are available which purport to measure health state utilities. One of these, the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument was developed in Australia and uses Australian importance weights. The present article discusses some of the methodological problems encountered by existing instruments. It outlines the construction of the AQoL Mark 2 and the methodological innovations which have attempted to overcome some of these problems. Copyright 2004 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.