TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joyce,C.R.B.
AU  - McGee,Hannah M.
AU  - OB̓oyle,Ciaran A.
TI  - Individual quality of life: approaches to conceptualisation and assessment 
SN  - 905702425X
AV  - HN25 .I64 1999
U1  - 300.72 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Harwood Academic Publishers
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Social service
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword --; List of Contributors --; Pt. I; Conceptual and Methodological Principles --; 1; Introduction: The Individual Perspective --; 2; Measuring the Quality of Life: Why, How and What? --; 3; Cognitive Theories and Individual Quality of Life Assessment --; 4; A Reformulation of Quality of Life for Medical Science --; 5; Methodological Issues in Individual Quality of Life Assessment --; 6; Individualising Assessment in Intervention Studies: N-of-1 Trials --; Pt. II; Specific Approaches to Individual Quality of Life Assessment --; 7; Interpretation of Data from Health Status Measures: What do the Numbers Mean? --; 8; Individualising Questionnaires --; 9; The Patient Generated Index --; 10; The Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life --; 11; Methods for Assessing Relative Importance in Preference Based Outcome Measures --; 12; Selected Methods for Assessing Individual Quality of Life --; Pt. III; Applications of Individual Quality of Life Assessment --; 13; Individual Quality of Life and Population Studies --; 14; Individual Quality of Life and Assessment by Carers or 'Proxy' Respondents --; 15; Individual Quality of Life in Palliative Care --; Pt. VI; Future Directions --; 16; Individual Quality of Life: Review and Outlook --; App; The Researcher's Tale: A Story of Virtue Lost and Regained --; Index
ER  -