Statistical Methods for Quality of Life Studies

by Mesbah, Mounir; Lee, Mei-Ling Ting; Cole, Bernard F.

• ISBN13: 9781402001420
• ISBN10: 1402001428
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The volume presents a broad spectrum of papers which illustrates a range of current research related to the theory, methods and applications of health related quality of life (HRQoL) as well as the interdisciplinary nature of this work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Presenting Authors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Measurement, Scale Development, and Study Design	p. 7
Regulatory Aspects of Quality of Life	p. 9
Biases in the Retrospective Calculation of Reliability and Responsiveness from Longitudinal Studies	p. 21
Application of the Multiattribute Utility Theory to the Development of a Preference based Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument	p. 33
Strategy and Methodology for Choice of Items in Psychometric Measurement: Designing a Quality of Life Instrument for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis	p. 51
Conception, Development and Validation of Instruments for Quality of Life Assessment: An Overview	p. 63
Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Quality of Life Data in Clinical Trials: Illustrations from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Breast Cancer Prevention Trial	p. 71
Disease-Specific Versus Generic Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies: an Inpatient Investigation of the SF-36 and Four Disease-Specific Instruments	p. 87
Analysis and Interpretation of Multiple Endpoints	p. 101
Analyzing Longitudinal Health-Related Quality of Life Data: Missing Data and Imputation Methods	p. 103
Comparison of Treatments with Multiple Outcomes	p. 113
The Use of Soft Endpoints in Clinical Trials: The Search for Clinical Significance	p. 129
Item Response Theory and Rasch Models	p. 141
Parametric and Nonparametric Item Response Theory Models in Health Related Quality of Life Measurement	p. 143
Questionnaire Reliability Under the Rasch Model	p. 155
Item Response Theory (IRT): Applications in Quality of Life Measurement, Analysis and Interpretation	p. 169
Graphical Rasch Models	p. 187
Joint Analysis of Quality of Life and Survival	p. 205
Semi-Markov Models for Quality of Life Data with Censoring	p. 207
A Model Relating Quality of Life to Latent Health Status and Survival	p. 219
Applying Survival Data Methodology to Analyze Longitudinal Quality of Life Data	p. 231
Latent Class Models to Describe Changes Over Time: A Case Study	p. 245
Quality-Adjusted Survival Analysis and Related Methods	p. 261
Prevalence Analysis of Recurrent and Transient Health States in Quality of Life Studies	p. 263
Measures of Quality Adjusted Life and Quality of Life Deficiency: Statistical Perspectives	p. 275
Quality-Adjusted Survival Analysis in Cancer Clinical Trials	p. 287
Methods for Informatively Missing Longitudinal Quality-of-Life data	p. 301
Handling of Missing Data	p. 303
Guidelines For Administration of Self-Reported Health-Related Quality of Questionnaires: How to Minimize Avoidable Missing Data?	p. 307
Joint Analysis of Survival and Nonignorable Missing Longitudinal Quality-of-Life Data	p. 309
Multiple Imputation for Non-Random Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies of Health-Related Quality of Life	p. 323
Strategies to Fit Pattern-Mixture Models	p. 339
Analysis of Longitudinal Quality of Life Data with Informative Dropout	p. 353
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