Health outcomes for primary and out-patient care : an editorial overview / Allen Hutchinson [and others] -- Assessing health outcomes in chronic disease / Allen Hutchinson, Jenny Hewison and Martin Eccles -- Developing and testing symptom-based outcome measures / Nick Steen and Elaine McColl -- Developing outcome measures for children : "quality of life" assessment for paediatric asthma / Davina French and Margaret Christie -- An economic perspective on health outcome measurement / John Brazier and John Cairns -- Taking a patient-centred approach to outcome measurement / Andrew M. Garratt and Danny A. Ruta -- Measuring patient outcomes of nursing / Senga Bond -- Use of outcome measures in health care commissioning / Martin Bardsley -- What impact can outcome assessment have on a nation's health : an illustration from England / Azim Lakhani -- Outcome measures in out-patient asthma care / Fiona Moss [and others] -- Which outcome measure? A methodological review / Max Jacobs and Jos A.G. Dessens -- Health outcome measures for older people / Jan Heyrman and Katelijne van Hoeck -- Antenatal care : an assessment of outcome / Pedro L. Ferreira -- Whose life is it anyway? / Berit Rokne Hanestad -- Cross-cultural issues in outcome assessment / Fransje Touw-Otten and Keith Meadows