Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
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Develop and validate a health-related quality-of-life (measure for patients with acute and chronic leukemia. ⋯ The FACT-Leu scale is a valid, reliable, and efficient measure of leukemia-specific health-related quality of life for acute and chronic disease.
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To design cost-effective health services it is important to understand why people adopt particular symptom management strategies. ⋯ People value self-care, supported self-care, and general practitioner consultation differently depending on the type of symptoms. Manipulating costs to users and waiting times for different services could allow policymakers to influence the services people choose when managing symptoms.