Evaluation of treatment effects on patients' quality of life: what approach? From the concepts to the instruments.
A critical review of currently used methods to evaluate quality of life in therapeutic trials (economic approach and medical approach) is presented. A new approach focused on subjective quality of life was developed. As efficient as the others it has the advantage to refer to a greater extent to the initial concepts which contributed to the emergence of this new field of research and to bring forward the patient point of view.
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D003657:Decision Making; D006040:Goals; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D012107:Research Design; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013812:Therapeutics; D026712:Value of Life