HEALTH  UTILITIES  INDEX: An Overview

What is HUITM? a system for measuring health status, health-related quality of life, and producing utility scores generic, preference-scored, comprehensive, compact based on explicit conceptual framework of health status and health-related quality of life there are 3 versions of TM : HUI Mark1 (HUI1); HUI Mark2 (HUI2); HUI Mark3 (HUI3) each version includes a health status classification system and formula for calculating utility scores HUI2 and HUI3 describe thousands of unique health states scoring formulas are well grounded in theory and based on preference data from community surveys conceptual and measurement properties described in numerous papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and books to date over 300 investigators have used HUITM in a wide variety of studies in over 20 countries world-wide more than 200,000 subjects have been assessed using HUITM Uses of HUITM ? to measure health-related quality of life for clinical trials to measure functional status for clinical studies to measure outcomes for cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses to measure health status for use in routine clinical practice and quality assurance programs to describe and monitor the health of general populations to investigate determinants of health to substitute for complex direct preference measurements HUITM Data Collection use HUI questionnaires to collect data on health status; code and analyze results according to algorithms documented by HUInc. HUI questionnaires and documentation are available in a variety of formats and languages for different applications HUI2 and HUI3 systems are complementary measures are appropriate for broad range of subjects (6 years of age and older) HUG/HUIHealth Related Quality of Life Research HUG / HUI "Overview" updated - December 13, 2005 HUG Webpages designed and maintained by John R. Horsman, CE&B