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The rise of medical technology assessment and QALY ideology have intensified the need and demand for a generic (disease-independent), sensitive, valid, reliable and easy-to-use measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, none of the measures and approaches suggested and developed over the years can claim to have established a position as the measure, either as a way of classifying and describing states of HRQOL or for valuing them. In addition, most of them have problems in meeting more than one of the above criteria.
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Sintonen, H., Pekurinen, M. (1993). A fifteen-dimensional measure of health-related quality of life (15D) and its applications. In: Walker, S.R., Rosser, R.M. (eds) Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2988-6_9
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