caa a22 4500 475847148 CHVBK 20180406123917.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1016645523769 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1016645523769 Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in Cataract Patients: The Relationship between utility and Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement [Elektronische Daten] [J.E. Lee, P.J. Fos, M.A. Zuniga, P.R. Kastl, J.H. Sung] The relationship between health-related quality of life (HQL) measures and patient preference for their health status was studied. Study subjects consisted of 132 patients at four hospitals who were scheduled for cataract surgery. Generic and disease-specific health status measures were determined in study subjects. The Medical Outcomes Study Short-form 36 (SF-36) item health status instrument was used to measure generic health status and the Visual Function 14 (VF-14) item visual health status instrument was used as the disease-specific health measure. Preference for general health and visual health was measured by assessing utilities assigned by patients to certain health states. Utilities assigned for general health were correlated with all categories of the SF-36 and VF-14 scores. Utilities assigned for visual health were correlated with four categories of the SF-36 (role limitation due to emotional health, general health, physical functioning, and vitality) and VF-14 scores. Utilities assigned for visual health were more strongly correlated with VF-14 scores than generic measures of health. Verbal ratings for visual health were correlated with Snellen visual acuity (SVA) (r=0.20), utilities assigned for visual health (r=0.58), VF-14 scores (r=0.74), all categories of the SF-36 (r values ranging from 0.21 to 0.28), utilities assigned for general health (r=0.19), and verbal ratings for general health (r=0.29). Utility measures and verbal ratings for general and visual health were shown to be appropriate HQL measures. These measures were strongly correlated with other established generic and disease-specific health measures and should be included in the array of health status measures. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Health-related quality of life nationallicence Health status nationallicence Standard gambles nationallicence Utility nationallicence Lee J.E. School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA aut Fos P.J. Department of Health Systems Management and International Center for Health and Social Systems for the Elderly, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, USA aut Zuniga M.A. Department of Health Systems Management and International Center for Health and Social Systems for the Elderly, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, USA aut Kastl P.R. Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA aut Sung J.H. Department of Health Systems Management and International Center for Health and Social Systems for the Elderly, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, USA aut Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/10(2000-12-01), 1127-1135 0962-9343 9:10<1127 2000 9 11136 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016645523769 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016645523769 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee J.E. School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fos P.J. Department of Health Systems Management and International Center for Health and Social Systems for the Elderly, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zuniga M.A. Department of Health Systems Management and International Center for Health and Social Systems for the Elderly, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kastl P.R. Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sung J.H. Department of Health Systems Management and International Center for Health and Social Systems for the Elderly, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/10(2000-12-01), 1127-1135 0962-9343 9:10<1127 2000 9 11136 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer