Development of a quality-of-life rating scale for use in health-care evaluation.
Many concepts derived from quality-of-life measurement research have been deemed appropriate for use in health-care research. However, available life-quality measurement instruments developed for use with chronically ill and disabled populations have limited research utility because of their relatively narrow foci. Development of a more widely applicable measure was undertaken, and the resultant instruments is described. Potential uses are also discussed.
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003625:Data Collection; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006262:Health; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006304:Health Status; D011788:Quality of Life; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States