Outcomes & Quality of Life

Terms for measuring and valuing health outcomes, including patient-reported outcomes, utility values and QALYs.

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SF-36Short Form 36, RAND-36

A widely used generic health status questionnaire measuring functioning and wellbeing across eight domains, producing a profile rather than a single utility score.

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SF-6DShort Form Six Dimension, SF6D Index

A preference-based utility measure derived from a subset of SF-36 or SF-12 items, combined using a scoring algorithm into a single utility index.

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Standard GambleSG, Reference Gamble

The standard gamble is a choice-based health-state valuation method that finds the probability at which a respondent is indifferent between living in a certain health state and accepting a lottery between specified better and worse outcomes.

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