With progress in medicine, it gradually became apparent that the ultimate purpose of health
interventions is to enhance the quality of life (QoL) rather than to simply prolong life. Over the …

The term quality of life (Qol) has become a rallying cry for all those who strive to integrate
patients' subjective experience of their life during illness into clinical care. With its intuitive …

Over the past decade, quality of life (QoL) issues have become a key factor in the
management of patients with mental disorders as well as in planning mental health care …

Only recently the interest in the quality of life (QoL) has gained prominence in mental health
practice with respect to other medical disciplines, such as oncology or cardiology, perhaps …

Assessment of quality of life (QoL) and use of this information towards improvement of health
care services is an important area of activity of the World Health Organization (WHO). This …

Objective: Quality of life (QOL) has become a topic of growing interest in medical and
psychiatric practice in general, and in research in particular. Although the body of …

Quality of life has become a widely used concept for encompassing non‐disease aspects of
diseases of all kinds. With mental health care returning into the community and with the …

The tecnnology of contemporary research into the quality of life has been developing rapidly
for more that 10 years. There is now clear consensus on the major purposes and basic tools …

Patient-centred outcomes such as quality of life (QOL) are valued and used extensively in
mental healthcare evaluations, but concerns remain about their practical application due to …

Since the'70s, the assessment of quality of life (QOL) has grown from a'small cottage'industry
to a formal discipline within a coherent theoretical framework, accepted methods, and …