Background Understanding health-related quality of life (HRQOL) leads to more effective
and focused healthcare. America's growing health disparities makes it is increasingly …

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether health‐related quality‐of‐life (HRQoL) scores in a
primary care population can be used as a predictor of future hospital utilization and mortality …

Background and aims: This investigation examined the ability of a four-item Health-Related
Quality of Life (HRQOL) scale to predict short-term (30-day) and long-term (1-year) physician …

Objectives: Quality of life stands for the comprehensive assessment for health conditions
and the central concerns in the seniors' care. The inter-relationship between health-related …

Objectives. We examined factors that influence health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among
individuals aged 50 years and older with and without functional limitations. Methods. We …

PURPOSE: Although health-related quality of life in older people is generally assessed by
measuring specific domains of health status, such as activities of daily living or pain, the …

Background There has been considerable research into the impact of chronic illness on
health-related quality of life. However, few studies have assessed the impact of different …

Purpose The proportion of very old people is rising, and so, describing their health-related
quality of life (HRQoL) is an important point of interest. The aim of this study was to analyse …

Background: A number of indexes measuring self-reported generic health-related quality-of-
life (HRQoL) using preference-weighted scoring are used widely in population surveys and …

Objectives To explore central challenges with translating self‐reported measurement tools
for functional status and health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) into ambulatory quality …