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Health Utilities Index (HUI®)

	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:

All

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)
Utility
Physical functioning

Mode of administration:

Telephone-administered
Self-administered
Proxy-administered
Interviewer-administered
Computer-administered
Caregiver-administered

[ An integrated, computerized, web-based system of administering and scoring HUI questionnaires is available ]

Number of items:

Self-administered format: 15, Interviewer-administered format: 40

Existence of database:

Yes

[ More information in the restricted access level ]

Time recall:

"past 1 week" or "past 2 weeks" or "past 4 weeks" or "usual"

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the UK
English for North America
English for Australia

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

Chinese (Simplified)	French	Korean	Spanish
Chinese (Traditional)	French for Canada	Norwegian	Spanish for North America
Czech	German	Polish	Swedish
Danish	Hebrew	Portuguese	Turkish
Dutch	Italian	Portuguese for Brazil
Finnish	Japanese	Serbian

On-going translations:

Malay

Russian

Tamil

Last update: October 2008
Last update in collaboration with the author: February 2007

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