A critical appraisal of the quality of quality-of-life measurements.
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Summary
To evaluate how well quality of life is being measured in the medical literature and to offer a new approach to the measurement, original English-language articles having the term "quality of life" in their titles were identified.
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- article
- Published
- 1994-08-24
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- 2,286
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- 93
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Keywords
Medicine, Quality of life (healthcare), Quality (philosophy), Data extraction, Critical appraisal
References
- Development of a comprehensive quality of life measurement tool: CARES.
- Assessment of quality of life in end-stage renal disease.
- Health Status and Health Policy: Quality of Life in Health Care Evaluation and Resource Allocation
- Quality of life assessments in clinical trials
- Measuring the quality of life of cancer patients: a concise QL-index for use by physicians.
- Measuring quality of life in clinical trials: a taxonomy and review.
- Relationship between a Pulmonary Function Test (FEV1) and the Adapt Quality-of-Life Scale
- Cancer patients' quality of life over the disease course: lessons from the real world.
- Prediction of quality of life in a cohort of end-stage renal disease patients.
- Quality of life in patients on permanent home parenteral nutrition.
- Measuring the effectiveness of heart transplant programmes: quality of life data and their relationship to survival analysis.
- Quality of life assessment by patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
- Quality of life on angina therapy: a randomised controlled trial of transdermal glyceryl trinitrate against placebo.
- Quality of Life, Health Status, and Clinical Research
- The Sickness Impact Profile: Development and Final Revision of a Health Status Measure
- Quality-of-life measures: hospital interview versus home questionnaire.
- The Impact of Long-term Warfarin Therapy on Quality of Life: Evidence From a Randomized Trial
- The quality of life of three functional spinal cord injury subgroups in a Swedish community
- Prospective quality‐of‐life analysis after palliative photoablation for the treatment of malignant dysphagia
- Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life
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- Why are we weighting? The role of importance ratings in quality of life measurement
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- Health-related quality of life of patients with genetic skeletal dysplasias
- Development of a reliable and valid psychosocial measure of self-perception of health in type 2 diabetes.
- Quality of life after laryngectomy: Are functional disabilities important?
- A Clinimetric Evaluation of Specialized Geriatric Care for Rural Dwelling, Frail Older People
- Quality of Life in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of English and Canadian Children
- Quality of life in end-stage renal disease patients.
- A prospective study of sexual and urinary function before and after total mesorectal excision with autonomic nerve preservation for rectal cancer.
- Quality of life in long-term survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
- ESRD patient quality of life: symptoms, spiritual beliefs, psychosocial factors, and ethnicity.
- Breast cancer survivorship in a multiethnic sample
- Quality of life among people with high spinal cord injury living in the community
- Individual Quality of Life is not Correlated with Health-Related Quality of Life or Physical Function in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Eyes Wide Shut? – A Conceptual and Empirical Critique of Methadone Maintenance Treatment
- Oral health-related quality of life: a model for dental hygiene.
- The Best-Interest Standard: Surrogate Decision Making and Quality of Life
- Quality of life of individuals with spinal cord injury: a review of conceptualization, measurement, and research findings.
- Quality of Life Following Cardiac Surgery: Impact of the Severity and Course of Depressive Symptoms
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