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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Vision and Quality of Life: Development of Methods for the VisQoL Vision-Related Utility Instrument

Stuart Peacock Centre for Health Economics in Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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RoseAnne Misajon School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Angelo Iezzi Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Jeff Richardson Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Graeme Hawthorne Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Jill Keeffe Centre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Vision CRC, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Pages 218-223 | Received 29 Jun 2007, Accepted 25 Jan 2008, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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