Health status and health policy : quality of life in health care evaluation and resource allocation / Donald L. Patrick, Pennifer Erickson.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

xxv, 478 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Health status and health decisions -- Strategy for allocating resources to health care -- Theoretical foundations for health-related quality of life -- Concepts of health-related quality of life -- Types of health-related quality of life assessments -- Assigning values to health states -- Selecting an instrument for primary data collection -- Developing a strategy for secondary data analysis -- Estimating prognosis and years of healthy life -- Costs in the health resource allocation strategy -- Ranking costs and outcomes of health care alternatives -- Preventing disease and promoting health: goals for the nation -- Improving health-related quality of life through technology -- Improving access to health care -- Limits of rationality in allocating health resources -- Four measures of health-related quality of life for implementing the health resource allocation strategy -- Sources of information about measures of health-related quality of life.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-461) and indexes