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Using health-related quality-of-life information

Clinical encounters, clinical trials, and health policy

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  1. the Divisions of Clinical Epidemiology and General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

    Joel Tsevat MD, MPH

  2. the Section for Clinical Epidemiology, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

    Joel Tsevat MD, MPH, Jane C. Weeks MD, MS & Milton C. Weinstein PhD

  3. the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

    Joel Tsevat MD, MPH, Joseph S. Pliskin PhD & Milton C. Weinstein PhD

  4. the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Control, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

    Jane C. Weeks MD, MS

  5. the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

    Edward Guadagnoli PhD &  Paul D. Cleary PhD

  6. the Departments of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire

    Anna N. A. Tosteson ScD

  7. the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, California

    Carol M. Mangione MD, MS

  8. the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Joseph S. Pliskin PhD

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Supported by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (HS06341, HS06673, HS06694), the National Cancer Institute (CA57755, CA59408), the American Society for Clinical Oncology, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, and the John A. Hartford Foundation.

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Tsevat, J., Weeks, J.C., Guadagnoli, E. et al. Using health-related quality-of-life information. J Gen Intern Med 9, 576–582 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02599287

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