Health-related quality of life measures need content validity.
Health-related Quality of Life measures are being increasingly considered as tools to aid decisions of health resource allocation, given their potential to comprehensively assess the impact of a given illness or health intervention on the individual. The development of suitable measures requires an understanding of the way external and psychological variables interact to determine subjective well-being and necessitates careful determination of those variables most important to the patient.
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D001315:Australia; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006302:Health Services Research; D011788:Quality of Life; D026712:Value of Life