title: Description of a health-related quality of life conceptual model.
abstract: Outcomes are key to understanding the effectiveness of patient care. By incorporating patient outcomes such as health-related quality of life (HRQOL) into practice, researchers, administrators, and clinicians can determine optimal strategies for patient care. This article describes a health-related quality of life conceptual model. By uniting the biomedical and social science paradigms, this outcome model could be used for describing, explaining, and predicting quality patient care.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-2602, USA.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Sousa
mesh_terms: D004777:Environment; D006304:Health Status; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D005791:Patient Care / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards*; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results