The quality of life : the assessment, analysis and reporting of patient-reported outcomes / Peter M. Fayers and David Machin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fayers, Peter M., author.

Machin, David, author.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quality of life--Research.

Quality of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (651 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

The assessment of patient reported outcomes and health-related quality of life continue to be rapidly evolving areas of research and this new edition reflects the development within the field from an emerging subject to one that is an essential part of the assessment of clinical trials and other clinical studies. The analysis and interpretation of quality-of-life assessments relies on a variety of psychometric and statistical methods which are explained in this book in a non-technical way. The result is a practical guide that covers a wide range of methods and emphasizes the use of simple techniques that are illustrated with numerous examples, with extensive chapters covering qualitative and quantitative methods and the impact of guidelines. The material in this new third edition reflects current teaching methods and content widened to address continuing developments in item response theory, computer adaptive testing, analyses with missing data, analysis of ordinal data, systematic reviews and meta-analysis. This book is aimed at everyone involved in quality-of-life research and is applicable to medical and non-medical, statistical and non-statistical readers. It is of particular relevance for clinical and biomedical researchers within both the pharmaceutical industry and clinical practice.

Contents:

Principles of measurement scales

Developing a questionnaire

Scores and measurement : validity, reliability, sensibility

Multi-item scales

Factor analysis and structural equation modelling

Item response theory and differential item functioning

Item banks, item linking, and computer-adaptive tests

Choosing and scoring questionnaires

Clinical trials

Samples sizes

Cross-sectional analysis

Exploring longitudinal data

Modelling longitudinal data

Missing data

Practical and reporting issues

Death and quality-adjusted survival

Clinical interpretation

Biased reporting and response shift

Meta-analysis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118759028

1118759028

9781118758991

1118758994

9781118759011

111875901X

OCLC:

931999399