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Quality of life is a primary end-point in clinical settings

dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, José Luís Pais
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-24T19:11:52Z
dc.date.available2012-10-24T19:11:52Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractThe 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.por
dc.identifier.citationClinical Nutrition, 23, 121-130por
dc.identifier.issn0261-5614
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/1787
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherElsevierpor
dc.subjectQuality of lifepor
dc.subjectAssessmentpor
dc.subjectPrimary end-pointpor
dc.titleQuality of life is a primary end-point in clinical settingspor
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceAmsterdampor
oaire.citation.endPage130por
oaire.citation.startPage121por
oaire.citation.titleClinical Nutritionpor
oaire.citation.volume23por
rcaap.rightsrestrictedAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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