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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