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Additional Resources
For those interested in accessing other useful quality of life resources, the following materials are suggested.

  • http://www.thoracic.org/ American Thoracic Society Web site. (This web site describes QoL instruments [and their psychometric properties] for asthma and other respiratory disorders. Indexes, contacts and reference materials are provided for the surveys listed.)

  • Bender BG. Measurement of quality of life in pediatric asthma clinical trials. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 1996, 77, 438-445 [PubMed]

  • Hyland M. A brief guide to the selection of quality of life instrument. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2003 Jul 3;1(1):24. (Full text article on PubMed offers an introductory level description of key issues when selecting QOL instruments.) [PubMed]

  • http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0962-9343/contents. Kluwer Web site. (Kluwer is the publisher for the Quality of Life journal and their web site offers information, abstracts and full-text articles on QoL surveys.)

  • http://www.qolid.org/ The Quality of Life Instruments Database. (A European web site that permits limited free access searches for QOL instruments according to disease state, population and other queries.)

  • Staquet, Hays, and Fayers. Quality of Life Assessment in Clinical Trials. Methods and Practice. Oxford Medical Publishers, 1998. (A textbook that provides a comprehensive guide to data analysis, psychometrics, key issues, and decision making theory.)

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