Amazon.com description: Product Description: A 'how-to' or 'cookbook' style book, setting out why patient-based measures are important, their history, and how to develop and select quality of life and related measures to assess outcomes in the health care workplace. For those interested in a more in-depth understanding of the area, or whose curiosity has been piqued, there would also be brief sections in each chapter that provide a more detailed examination of relevant theoretical or technical issues.

The proposed book is intended to:

describe the nature and origins of QoL measurement per se, and patient-centred measurement generally

explain how questionnaire-based measures can assist providers and researchers to develop better healthcare services

reveal how to locate patient-centred tests, and assess if a given test is suitable

provide a step by step method for developing a new test, using a practical, experience-based approach illustrated with examples from the authors experience in forming instruments that are currently in use.

No currently published book does this.

Written by a highly regarded international player in the field who is used to teaching health professionals so knows their needs. Is also well networked with pharmaceutical companies to facilitate special sales. Well-known to national governments and WHO.

Short, readable introduction. Gives the facts as they are needed in practice.