Interpretation of quality of life changes
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Quality of Life Research
- Vol. 2 (3), 221-226
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00435226
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.Keywords
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