(Health Related) Quality of Life and Health Status

(Health Related) Quality of Life 

General

36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36): The SF-36 is a set of generic, coherent, and easily administered quality-of-life measures. These measures rely upon patient self-reporting and are now widely utilized by managed care organizations and by Medicare for routine monitoring and assessment of care outcomes in adult patients. Shorter 20- and 12-item versions are also available

Diabetes Specific

Health Status

General

EQ-5D: EQ-5D is a standardized instrument for measuring generic health status. The health status measured with EQ-5D is used for estimating preference weight for that health status, then by combining the weight with time, quality-adjusted life year (QALY) can be computed.

Diabetes Specific