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    Health Utilities Index (HUI®)

    [ HUI refers to both HUI Mark 2 (HUI2) and HUI Mark 3 (HUI3) instruments ]

    Author(s)
    Feeny David
    Furlong W
    Torrance George W
    Purpose
      Pathology:
    Generic

      Disease:
    All

      Objective:
    To describe health status, measure within-attribute morbidity and health-related quality of life, and produce utility scores

      Population for intended use:
    All
    Characteristics
      Type of instrument:
    Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)
    Physical functioning
    Utility

      Administration mode:
    Computer-administered
    Interviewer-administered
    Self-administered
    Telephone-administered

    [ An integrated, computerized, web-based system of administering and scoring HUI questionnaires is available. For ages 5-8 years, the HUI can be assessed by a proxy. ]

      Number of items:
    Self-administered format: 15, Interviewer-administered format: 40

      Existence of database:
    Yes

    [ More information in the restricted access level ]

      Recall/Observation period:
    "past 1 week" or "past 2 weeks" or "past 4 weeks" or "usual"
     
    Language(s)
      Original language:
    English for Australia
    English for North America
    English for the UK

      List of existing translations:
    The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.

    This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors

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    Bulgarian French for Canada
    		 Norwegian Spanish for Chile
    Chinese (Simplified)
    German
    Polish
    Spanish for Mexico
    Chinese (Traditional)
    Hebrew
    Portuguese
    Spanish for North America
    Croatian Hungarian Portuguese for Brazil
    		 Spanish for Spain
    Czech
    Italian
    Romanian
    Swedish
    Danish
    Japanese
    Russian
    Tamil
    Dutch
    Korean
    Serbian
    Thai
    Finnish
    Malay
    Slovak
    		 Turkish
    French Mandarin for Taiwan Spanish for Argentina Vietnamese


    On-going translations:
    Afrikaans
    English for India
    Flemish
     Greek


    Please     contact HUInc for the most up-to-date list of available languages and versions
     


    Last update: January 2012
    Last update in collaboration with the author: February 2007


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