Health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) measures are used to assess the multifaceted impact
of disease, and determine the utility and associated disability. In addition, the impact of …

Organization (WHO) as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”[1, 2] This definition has recently been …

Current quality of life measuring tools are suited for economic decision making, not to
investigate causal processes which lead to patients making evaluations of their lives. An …

ABSTRACT A dramatic increase in the number of research papers on the topic of quality of
life (QOL) has occurred during the last 30 years. This article summarizes our current …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to discuss the value of health‐related quality of life
(HR‐QOL) measurement and describe its development with a few examples …

Quality of life (QOL) has been chosen as an outcome measure by various agencies of the
United States federal government and has been employed to an increasing extent by …

Quality of life (QoL) has been defined in numerous ways; however, most definitions indicate
that it encompasses an individual's perceptions of his or her physical, psychological, social …

Although WHO defined health as a" state of complete physical, mental and social well-
being''in 1948, it is only in recent years that health-related" quality-of-life''(HRQOL) has …

Interest in measuring Quality of life (QOL) in modern medicine has increased considerably in
recent years. However, there is no generally agreed definition of QOL, but the term …

Quality of life (QOL) is more and more considered to be the ideal od modern medicine in
terms of biopsichosocial viewpoint, because it allows ethical advancement within clinical …