One of the reasons behind the rapid development of quality of life measures in health care
has been the growing recognition of the importance of understanding the impact of …

The way we think about health and health care is changing. The two factors driving this
change are the recognition of the importance of the social consequences of disease and the …

It is now widely acknowledged that the personal burden of illness cannot be described fully
by measures of disease status such as size of infarction, tumour load, and forced expiratory …

Quality of life measures are increasingly used to supplement objective clinical or biological
measures of disease to assess the quality of service, the need for health care, the …

In modern medicine the traditional way of assessing change in patients has been to focus on
laboratory or clinical tests. At its most simple this involves measuring pulse, blood pressure …

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This week a proposed new contract between the NHS and general practitioners contains an
initiative to improve the quality of primary care that is the boldest such proposal on this scale …

Everyone wants information on clinical outcomes. 1 These measures have an intuitive
appeal: high quality care should be reflected by good outcomes. Therefore, poorer …

The NHS has been collecting data on patients' experience of care for over 10 years but few
providers are systematically using the information to improve services. Angela Coulter and …