Quality of life as an indicator of outcome in the treatment of cancer patients: the purchaser perspectives.
Evaluation of treatment can be seen as part of a wider concern to measure quality of care, as well as about the need to monitor and improve the effectiveness of services. Quality of life issues will be of increasing interest to those involved in the commissioning of health-care services. Cancer is used to illustrate how the quality of life of patients, both during and after treatment, can be measured and the information used by purchasers to consider the relative effectiveness of different methods of treatment. This in turn can inform the overall purchasing strategy of commissioning agencies.
Morris
J
J
York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, UK.
Watt
A
A
D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D010358:Patient Participation; D011788:Quality of Life; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D006113:United Kingdom