To understand and assess the concept “quality of life”, it must be analyzed. In this report it is
postulated that quality of life covers life as a whole as well as different subdomains of life …

This paper provides an overview of the two main conceptual approaches to quality of life
assessment; the standard needs approach where quality of life is seen as the extent to …

It 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 …

Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for
purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been …

The field of health status and quality of life (QoL) measurement–as a formal discipline with a
cohesive theoretical framework, accepted methods, and diverse applications–has 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 …

Quality of life is now considered an important health outcome and in many types of research
measuring quality of life is an integral part of the assessment of health interventions. This …

Over the past few years, expressions of disquiet about the term'Quality of Life'and the way in
which it is applied and measured in clinical settings and in Health Economics have slowly …

In this paper three questions concerning quality of life in medicine and health care are
analysed and discussed: the motives for measuring the quality of life, the methods used in …

Issues of definition are first considered, with special attention to the notion that quality of life
could be defined as a patient's subjective well-being. The complexities of measuring such a …