From the *Department of Pharmacy Practice, Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago; †Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care, Hines VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois; ‡Institute for Community Medicine, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany; §Department of Epidemiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and ¶Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center on Outcomes, Research and Education, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois.
The authors are grateful for partial funding support from the EuroQol group. The original data collection that focused on the validation of symptom assessment scales in cancer was supported by a consortium of 10 pharmaceutical companies.
This work was accepted for podium presentation at the annual ISOQOL conference in Lisbon Portugal, Oct 14–16, 2006 and an earlier version of the article may appear in the proceedings of the 24th Scientific Plenary of the EuroQol Group.
The views expressed in this article are the solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the EuroQol Group. The 5L versions of the EQ-5D were experimental prototypes and are not officially recognized by the EuroQol Group.
Reprints: A. Simon Pickard, PhD, Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Rm 164, MC 886, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612. E-mail: [email protected].
