Objective: To review the use of measures of health status in the assessment of benefits in
economic evaluation, whether or not the measures were designed for this purpose. Methods: …

BACKGROUND There is now a considerable body of evidence revealing that a number of
ethnic minority groups in the UK and other economically developed countries experience …

Given the growing need to value health-related quality of life, a review of the literature relating
to health state valuation techniques was undertaken to appraise the current theoretical …

This paper reports on the findings of a study to derive a preference-based measure of
health from the SF-36 for use in economic evaluation. The SF-36 was revised into a six-…

There have been a number of published reviews of measures of health related quality of life,
but most of this work has been undertaken within a tradition of psychometrics outside of …

Background Benign prostatic enlargement (BPE) commonly causes older men to have
difficulty passing urine. If non-surgical management does not alleviate symptoms satisfactorily, …

In order to study the roles of the AMPA and kainate subtypes of non-NMDA glutamate receptors
in the processing of persistent nociceptive information, compounds with varying activities …

… SC Robson,1* T Kelly,1 D Howel,1,3 M Deverill,2 J Hewison,4 MLS Lie,2 E Stamp,2 N
Armstrong2 and CR May2 … Robson SC, Kelly T, Howel D, Deverill M, Hewison J, Lie MLS …

Background Young people with complex health needs have impairments that can limit their
ability to carry out day-to-day activities. As well as coping with other developmental …

Introduction. Glutamic acid is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous
system, exerting its actions at multiple subtypes of excitatory amino acid (EAA) receptors. 1 2-…