A Guide to the HUInc Website
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A Guide to the HUInc Website |
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Welcome to Health Utilities Inc., leaders in utility assessment of health-related quality of life. The following list highlights the contents of the HUITM internet pages. Use the navigation buttons to the left to locate specific pages. Contact the HUInc webmaster if you have and queries or suggestions regarding this site. |
| Overview | Highlights of the HUI system for measuring health status, health-related quality of life, and producing utility scores. |
| SiteMap | Descriptive guide to the individual web-pages as of November 11, 2005 including pictures of the cast and crew of HUInc at various venues and functions over the last few years. Scroll to the Photo Album at the bottom of this page. |
| HUI2 Classification | Details of the Health Utilities Index-Mark2 system including the attribute levels, classification system, and scoring algorithm. For details of the HUI2 valuation project and associated algorithms in the UK see C.McCabe at University of Sheffield. |
| HUI3 Classification | Details of the Health Utilities Index-Mark3 system including the attribute levels, classification system, and scoring algorithm. |
| Manual | This is an excerpt from the standard HUI Self-administered, Self-assessed questionnaire application manual (January 18, 1999 edition). It includes the "Table of Contents" (TOC) and the "Introduction". |
| HUI Format | Which HUI questionnaire format is right for your needs? The HUI health status classification system can be interviewer or self-administered, proxy or self-assessed, with a range of 'standard' recall periods to suit most surveys. This page provides 'at-a-glance' details of the different versions available including the new HUI Web-based administration application. |
| Languages | The HUI measurement system is available in many languages. This page provides more details on availability and who to contact. It also has a link to an on-line application form for e-submit direct to the HUInc Service Centre. |
| References | A bibliography of journal articles, abstracts, books, and book chapters detailing the use of the HUI health status measures. This list is sub-divided into sections including articles whose main focus is "Methodology", "Clinical & Evaluative studies", "Population Health applications", "HUI3 in Canadian Population Health Surveys", "List of health care problem investigated", and finally, a "List of countries where HUI measurement systems applications have been used". The list is kept current and the date of the 'last' update is shown. |
| Fees | Details of HUI support services and licensing fees. Much information about the HUIR is published and in the public domain. In addition, a large number of materials are proprietary and may be used only with written permission from HUInc. and upon payment of licensing fees. |
| Contacts | Who and How to contact the HUInc Service Centre. |
| Application Form | On-line application form to submit a profile of information related to your study proposal. It allows the HUInc service personnel to review your proposal and advise which HUI instrument is best suited to your needs. |
| FAQ | Provides a direct link to a review paper "The Health Utilities Index (HUI®): concepts, measurement properties and applications" by Horsman, Furlong, Feeny & Torrance at the on-line publication site of Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. This review paper has a publisher's "Highly Accessed" site designation. It is a Q&A format about the standard HUI. |
| HUI Components | Schematic diagrams of both the traditional "paper & pencil" format of presenting HUI questionnaires and the new "Web-based" format. |
| Web-based System *NEW* | Brief description of the new (2005) HUI web-based administration application system. The HUI can now be administered via the internet. Results, including questionnaire responses plus all HUI2 & HUI3 variables and utility scores, are emailed direct to the study coordinator as soon as a respondent completes the questionnaire. |
| HUI Photo-Album | Selected photos from the HUInc album. Click on the small photos to see the larger picture. |
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John Horsman, Bill Furlong, George Torrance at the HUInc booth @ ISPOR2003 |
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Chris McCabe &Bill Furlong discussing UK valuation of HUI2 @ ISPOR2003 |
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David Feeny @ ISTAHC2003 |
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David Feeny, Bill Furlong, George Torrance comparing notes @ ISTAHC2003 |
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Bill Furlong, John Horsman, David Feeny, George Torrance, Takamoto Uemura @ ISTAHC2003 |
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Danielle Hunter with poster @ ISPOR2005 "HEALTH UTILITIES INDEX (HUI) ON-LINE QUESTIONNAIRE SYSTEM: CRITERION VALIDITY OF MULTI- AND SINGLE-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY SCORES" |
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Danielle Talsma with award winning poster @ ISPOR2005 "RELIABILITY OF SPANISH-LANGUAGE HUI MEASUREMENTS IN SURVIVORS OF CANCER IN CHILDHOOD: AGREEMENT BETWEEN PATIENTS, PARENTS AND PHYSICIANS" |
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Danielle Hunter & Danielle Talsma @ ISPOR2005 |
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John Horsman another award winner @ ISPOR2005 "RELIABILITY and VALIDITY of BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE HEALTH UTILITIES INDEX (HUI) QUESTIONNAIRES FOR ASSESSING THE HEALTH STATUS OF SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER" |
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Danielle Talsma & Danielle Hunter at the HUInc Booth @ ISPOR2005 |
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David Feeny in San Francisco at the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Quality of Life Research - ISOQOL 2005. |
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Bill Furlong, Maria Santana, Ken Eng, George Torrance & Keiko Asakawa at ISOQOL 2005. |
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Danielle Talsma with her poster "RELIABILITY OF SPANISH-LANGUAGE HEALTH UTILITIES INDEX MARK 2 (HUI2) IN SURVIVORS OF CANCER DURING CHILDHOOD: AGREEMENT BETWEEN PATIENTS, PARENTS AND PHYSICIANS" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Quality of Life Research - ISOQOL 2005. |
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Maria Santana with her poster "IS IT FEASIBLE TO INCLUDE ROUTINE HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQL) ASSESSMENT IN THE CLINICAL CARE OF HEART TRANSPLANT PATIENTS?" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Quality of Life Research - ISOQOL 2005. |
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Heart transplant patients completing the HUI during a routine post-surgical clinic visit. |
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Health Utilities Group - HUInc Service Centre Staff, May, 2006. Back row L-R, John Horsman, Sonja dePauw, Bill Furlong Front row L-R, Charlene Rae, Jennifer McGugan On maternity leave Danielle Hunter. |
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Charlene Rae and George Torrance at the HUInc booth at ISPOR 2006 in Philadelphia. George was awarded ISPOR's Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's conference. |
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George Torrance - recipient of this year's "Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award" awarded at the ISPOR 11th Annual International Meeting in Philadelphia, May 2006. George is co-developer of the HUI. The award is named in honor of Avedis Donabedian, one of the pioneers in the measurement of patient outcomes and quality of care. Previous winners include John Ware and Michael Drummond. |
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The HUI booth at ISPOR2006 European Congress in Copenhagen. Unfortunately our booth display equipment did not arrive on time. Luckily, we had our banner-flag and reprint originals and were able to improvise. Many thanks to our old friends and new acquaintances who dropped by to say hello. |
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