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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