Purpose. The paper reviews the Health Utilities Index (HUI®) as a means to describe health status and obtain utility scores reflecting health-related quality of life (HRQL). Materials. The HUI Mark 2 (HUI2) and Mark 3 (HUI3) classification and scoring systems are described. The methods used to...

Growing interest in methods of quantifying health-related quality of life has resulted in demand for a manual describing general techniques that may be customized by health researchers and used to measure preferences in applications having a wide variety of objectives. This report is intended to...

Purpose - To explore the extent to which Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education ‘explain’ variance in the practice decisions and patient care attitudes of a cohort Method - Using data from a survey of all certificands of the College of Family Physicians who live in Ontario and qualified...

Although health economics may be considered to be the application of economics as a way of thinking about questions regarding the production, maintenance and distribution of health, health economists have historically paid more attention to some production inputs than to others. Health economics...

This study examined the components of the benchmarks used to monitor consistency of provider by home care agencies that competed for nursing and homemaking contracts in the Hamilton-Wentworth Community Care Access Centre. Comparisons of the impact of varying components of the benchmarks on...

As more women acquire professional qualifications, the numbers of couples in which both spouses are professionals will increase. All physicians living in Ontario who had been certified in family medicine between 1989 and 1991, after completing a residency, were surveyed in the autumn of 1993....