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The objective of this review is to present and discuss the quality of life
(QOL) construct, more specifically the QOL in the field of health and disease also
designated as health-related quality of life (HRQOL). QOL is an everyday language
concept with a relatively short history in the health field. It became a principal endpoint
in health care as a consequence of the development of patients’ rights
movements. It is important for clinical, economic and political decisions. There is no
gold standard way to measure QOL and the existence of a huge number of measures
and related QOL concepts makes it difficult to discuss QOL. This means that many
times we are using the same expression ‘‘QOL’’ but we are not talking about the same
thing. So we submit that it is important to keep looking for the good construct and the
good measure. The reason why we decide to evaluate QOL influences the measures
we choose. In general, QOL measures are based on questionnaires that must be short
and easy to answer. The interest in these kind of soft measures (in opposition to the
traditional hard physiologically or biochemically oriented measures) is growing fast.
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Quality of life Assessment Primary end-point
Citation
Clinical Nutrition, 23, 121-130