Email xinzhang@nus.edu.sg 

Zhang Xin currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. She obtained a Ph.D degree in health outcome measurement from the University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands; holds a master’s degree in nursing science (MSN) with honors from the Peking University, China, and a bachelor’s degree in medical science (B.MSc) with honors from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China. Her research interests center around health-related quality of life, patient-reported outcome measurement, care for older adults, and chronic disease management. She is dedicated to collaborating with international experts in public health and nursing, aiming to integrate Eastern and Western practices to ultimately enhance the quality of life and well-being of patients.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

• Health-related quality of life measurement

• B.MSc. (2016), Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China
• MSN. (2019), Peking University, China
• PhD. (2024), University of Groningen, Netherlands

• Xin Zhang, Paul Krabbe. From simple to even simpler, but not too simple: A head-to-head comparison of the Better-Worse and Drop-Down methods for measuring patient health status. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2023;23(1):299. doi: 10.1186/s12874-023-02119-9.
• Xin Zhang, Karin Vermeulen, Paul Krabbe. Different frameworks, similar results? Head-to-head comparison of the generic preference-based health-outcome measures CS-Base and EQ-5D. Appl Health Econ Health Policy. 2024;22(2):227-242. doi: 10.1007/s40258-023-00837-1.
• Xin Zhang, Karin Vermeulen, Paul Krabbe. Health status of US patients with one or more health conditions: using a novel electronic PROM producing single metric measures. Med Care. 2023; 1;61(11):765-771. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001919.
• Xin Zhang, Karin Vermeulen, Paul Krabbe. Generating utilities for the CS-Base: a novel, generic and patient-centered health-outcome measure. Value in Health. In press. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2024.06.013.