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Computerized Dynamic Estimates of SF-36® Health Domains Available Royalty-Free for Scholarly Research 07-20-2004

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Using QualityMetric's SF-12v2™ Health Survey
09-15-2003

QualityMetric Releases Significant Update of SF Bibliography
05-05-2003

QualityMetric Releases SF-12v2™ Health Survey User's Manual
10-30-2002

QualityMetric Streamlines Access to Health Outcomes Surveys
10-02-2002

Ware Receives Donabedian Award from ISPOR
05-21-2002

Modern Psychometric Methods "Score" at the Winter Olympics
02-20-2002

SF Survey Licensing and User Registration Simplified and On-line
01-28-2002

Recipes for Health Measures and Gingerbread Cookies
01-01-2002

Scholars Debate Interpretation of SF-36® Summary Health Measures
09-08-2001

Can item response theory reduce respondent burden in health assessments?
08-14-2001

Japanese SF-36 User's Manual Published by Fukuhara
06-29-2001

The SF-36 Physical and Mental Health Summary Scales: A Manual for Users - Just Published
04-16-2001

QualityMetric and invivodata Join Forces to Optimize Health Outcome Assessments for Handheld Devices Used in Clinical Trials
03-26-2001

SF Survey Licensing and User Registration Simplified and On-line
01-28-2002

The Medical Outcomes Trust (MOT), Health Assessment Lab (HAL) and QualityMetric Incorporated, co-copyright holders of all SF-36®, SF-12® and SF-8™ Health Surveys, have merged their licensing and user registration programs, with the objectives of simplifying licensing and user registration and better meeting the needs of the many new academic, commercial, and other licensees.

The fastest way to renew a current license or obtain a new license is to complete and submit the License Application Form available at Licensing & User Registration. The information you provide will help to determine the license or user registration program that is best for you and/or your organization.

Goals for the licensing and user registration programs remain unchanged:

(1) to maintain the scientific standards for surveys and scoring algorithms that make results directly comparable and interpretable and

(2) to make surveys available royalty free to individuals and organizations with unfunded scholarly research.
The new merged programs also assure that those individuals and organizations that benefit from commercial uses of the intellectual property pay royalties or other user fees that will support the research community that made the original surveys possible. These fees will also support the work of the MOT Scientific Advisory Committee, which develops and applies scientific standards in evaluating health outcomes measures, and will make it possible to offer discounts to students worldwide.

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