Quality of Life and Technology Assessment Paperback / softback

The field of health care technology assessment focuses on the use of medical technologies?their impacts on safety, efficacy, and effectiveness; cost-effectiveness and cost benefit; quality; and their social, legal, and ethical implications.

This wide-ranging monograph addresses some of the gaps in understanding health status and quality of life, such as the use of quality-of-life measures in technology assessment, organ transplantation, and pharmaceutical trials.

One chapter provides basic references for the technical attributes of many established measures and some lesser known ones.

The final chapter offers recommendations concerning the appropriate applications of these measures and highlights areas for cooperative research. Table of ContentsFront Matter1. Conceptual Background and Issues in Quality of Life2.

The Use of Quality-of-Life Measures in Technology Assessment3.

Quality-of-Life Measures in Liver Transplantation4. Quality-of-Life Measures and Methods Used to StudyAntihypertensive Medications5.

The Use of Quality-of-Life Measures in the Private Sector6.

Assessing Quality of Life: Measures and Utility7. Applications of Quality-of-Life Measures and Areas forCooperative ResearchThe Authors