Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 53, Issue 9 , Pages 920-930, September 2000

Construction of the Patient-Oriented Prostate Utility Scale (PORPUS)

a multiattribute health state classification system for prostate cancer

  • Murray Krahn

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. The Toronto General Hospital, ENG-248, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4. Tel: 416-340-4155; fax: 416-595-5826.
    • ,
  • Paul Ritvo

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Behavioral Science and, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Jane Irvine

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • ,
  • George Tomlinson

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • ,
  • Andrea Bezjak

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • ,
  • John Trachtenberg

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • ,
  • Gary Naglie

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
    • Departments of Program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,

Received 23 July 1999; received in revised form 15 December 1999; accepted 26 January 2000.

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 53, Issue 9 , Pages 920-930, September 2000

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