Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990sIt was over five years ago that the Centre for Medicines Research organized a workshop entitled "Quality of Life: Assessment and Application". This workshop brought together a unique group of participants, some of whom had been involved in studies on quality of life for well over a decade, whilst others were meeting the subject for the first time. This blend of experienced researchers and enthusiastic newcomers was a great stimulus to the discus sions which followed individual presentations as well as that resulting from the study groups. In the ensuing publication, a balance was sought between a consideration of the complex principles underlying the assessment of quality of life and the application of such assessments to specific clinical conditions which necessitated this approach. The organization in 1991 of a second workshop entitled "Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s" resulted in a further consideration of the quality of life philosophy, concepts and key instruments together with an update on assessing quality of life in a number of major disease areas. Of particular importance was an examination of various viewpoints concerned with ethical questions and their implications, and quality oflife from industry, regulatory and health care purchasers' perspectives. As a result of this second workshop, the editors of the original book referred to above decided to produce a second edition with a number of updates and additional chapters. |
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This blend of experienced researchers and enthusiastic newcomers was a great stimulus to the discussions which followed individual presentations as well as that resulting from the study groups. In the ensuing publication, a balance was ...
This blend of experienced researchers and enthusiastic newcomers was a great stimulus to the discussions which followed individual presentations as well as that resulting from the study groups. In the ensuing publication, a balance was ...
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... evolving from a cottage industry of individual practitioners, to a highly organized enterprise of large-scale proportions. The growing centralization of decision-making has created roles for people (who may or may not be physicians) ...
... evolving from a cottage industry of individual practitioners, to a highly organized enterprise of large-scale proportions. The growing centralization of decision-making has created roles for people (who may or may not be physicians) ...
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While doctors' impressions may be adequate to guide individual therapy, they are not readily communicated to others ... There is a large class of health-care decisions which are notisolated choices for individuals, but decisions which ...
While doctors' impressions may be adequate to guide individual therapy, they are not readily communicated to others ... There is a large class of health-care decisions which are notisolated choices for individuals, but decisions which ...
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Is the notion of quality of life too personal or individual to be reduced to standardized measures? One can readily observe that people's perceptions of quality differ for every realm of evaluation imaginable and, furthermore, ...
Is the notion of quality of life too personal or individual to be reduced to standardized measures? One can readily observe that people's perceptions of quality differ for every realm of evaluation imaginable and, furthermore, ...
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Quality of life can be considered in regard both to individual patients and to aggregates of patients. With individual patients, the health-care provider wishes to assess the lives of individual patients and to evaluate the potential ...
Quality of life can be considered in regard both to individual patients and to aggregates of patients. With individual patients, the health-care provider wishes to assess the lives of individual patients and to evaluate the potential ...
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Contents
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rationale for a single | 65 |
Development testing and use of the Sickness Impact | 95 |
The Nottingham Health Profile | 111 |
an update | 131 |
A health index and output measure | 151 |
life 15D and its applications | 185 |
Measuring the quality of life of patients with Parkinsons | 289 |
Measuring quality of life in hypertension | 321 |
Measuring quality of life in psychiatry | 343 |
R B Joyce | 373 |
Industry perspectives on quality of life | 383 |
A regulatory view | 393 |
The cost effectiveness of pharmaceuticals | 401 |
Requirements for health care purchasers | 413 |
A WHO method for the assessment of healthrelated | 201 |
The OnLine Guide to QualityofLife Assessment | 221 |
Assessing Quality of Life in Major Disease Areas | 235 |
Measuring the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid | 269 |
The importance of quality of life in policy decisions | 427 |
Appendices | 441 |
Other editions - View all
Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s S R Walker,Rachel M Rosser No preview available - 1992 |
Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s S.R. Walker,Rachel M. Rosser No preview available - 2012 |
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