Interpretation of quality of life changes.

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation ·Vol. 2 ·No. 3 ·1993-06-00 ·Pages 221-6

Lydick E, Epstein RS

Abstract

The clinical significance of quality of life changes has little to do with the QOL as a measure, but is rather a reflection on the novelty of the measures and researcher's inexperience in their use. This article discusses possible ways of evaluating quality of life measures in terms of patient-clinician interactions and how the clinician can assess the importance of these changes of QOL in terms of treatment and management of disease.

MeSH Terms

Activities of Daily Living Bias Humans Professional-Patient Relations Quality of Life Reproducibility of Results Sensitivity and Specificity Surveys and Questionnaires/classification,standards Terminology as Topic Time Factors Treatment Outcome

Authors & Affiliations

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Lydick E

Merck Research Laboratories, West Point 19486.

Epstein R S

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Article Info

Journal

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation

Abbr.

Qual Life Res

ISSN

0962-9343

DOI

10.1007/BF00435226

Published

1993-06-00

Pages

221-6

Language

English

Region

Netherlands

NLM ID

9210257

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