The terminally ill person''s quality of life (QoL) is the principal focus and intended outcome of palliative care, the raison d''脙陋tre of palliative care interventions, and always of concern to the client. Palliative care case managers are encouraged to assess and/or measure this QoL to ...
Changes in quality of life following admission to palliative care units. The primary goal of palliative care is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of people with a terminal illness. Previous studies of the impact of hospice/pa... Cohen,S.,Boston,... - 《Palliative Medicine》 被引量: ...
The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire has been widely used with people with life-threatening illnesses without modification since its publication in 1996. With use, areas for improvement have emerged; therefore, various minor modifications were tested over time. To revise the McGill Quality of Life...
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures are of interest because they can be used to describe health of populations and represent a broader health o
The concept of quality of life has emerged, in part, in recognition of this issue and as a means of addressing the differing values placed on specific health states by different individuals and groups of individuals. The concept of QOL is also an implicit recognition that both individuals and ...
The aim of treating childhood cancer remains to cure all. As survival rates improve, long-term health outcomes increasingly define quality of care. The International Childhood Cancer Outcome Project developed a set of core outcomes for most types of chil
Healthcare systems around the world are struggling to provide high-quality care while controlling expenses because of rising costs of the healthcare sector. This issue impacts both developed and developing countries and it is not specific to any nation or geographical area [1]. An ageing population...
However, in (), this symptom, which can be considered as the main extrapulmonary clinical feature of the disease, can impact significantly on the health-related quality of life of the patients. The aims of this review are to discuss the issues related to fatigue assessment in and to high...
PURPOSE: To provide a method and its device by which the working life of a thermosetting resin is automatically measured. ;CONSTITUTION: A rotation body 2 is rotated in a curing agent-added thermosetting resin sample by a rotation type viscometer 3, and a time is clocked by a timer until ...
Measuring health-related quality of life in tuberculosis: a systematic review. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2010;8:6.Weis SE, Pasipanodya JG. Measuring health-related quality of life in tuberculosis: a systemic review--response. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2010;8:7. : 10.1186/1477-7525...