A fifteen-dimensional measure of health-related quality of life (15D) and its applications

Abstract

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.