Functionality and feedback: a realist synthesis of the collation, interpretation and utilisation
of patient-reported outcome mea Page 1 Northumbria Research Link Citation: Greenhalgh …

The American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society jointly created a Task Force
on “Outcomes for COPD pharmacological trials: from lung function to biomarkers” to inform …

Page 1 Measuring HEALTH third edition A review of quality of life measurement scales Ann
Bowling Page 2 MEASURING HEALTH Third Edition Page 3 Page 4 MEASURING HEALTH …

PREFACE quality n. 1. a characteristic, property or attribute. 2. high grade; superior. of prep.
A particle indicating 5, a relation of identity. life n. 1. Condition which distinguishes animals …

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 …

The term 'adjustment'is widely used within the psycho‐oncology literature and, although it is
a topic of central importance to the lived experience of people with cancer, the psychological …

Health‐related quality of life is an important patient‐reported outcome used in intervention
trials and for monitoring the consequences of health status on physical, mental, and social …

Most health-care professionals are trained to promote and maintain life and often have
difficulty when faced with the often rapid decline and death of people with terminal illnesses …

A short questionnaire for assessing general and health-related quality of life is presented.
Test construction and psychometric evaluation are described and recent findings obtained …

This paper applies a theory-driven approach to explore why the use of patient-reported
outcome (PRO) measures in clinical practice, in particular, health-related quality of life …