Objective: To examine the validity of a newly developed prediction model translating osteoarthritis (OA)-specific health-related quality of life (HRQL) scores measured using the Western Ontario and McMaster Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) into generic utility-based HRQL scores measured using the...

Objective. To develop a formula to translate Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) scores collected in clinical trials of patients with osteoarthritis (OA) into Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) utility scores for application in economic evaluation. Methods....

Published as Feeny, David, "Sub-Optimality and Transaction Costs on the Commons," in Edna Tusak Loehman and D. Marc Kilgour (eds.), Designing Institutions for Environmental and Resource Management (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 1998), 124-141. "Much of the literature on the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the effectiveness of aid has increased over time, in the light of the contention by Boone (199,. 1996), Dollar and Burnside (1997) and the World Bank (1998) on the issue of the extent to which the impact of aid on investment and growth is...