title: Can quality-of-life measures help in the care of urology patients?
abstract: Measuring a patient's quality of life aims to help practitioners concentrate on individuals' needs. But there are disagreements on how quality of life is defined and measured. Focusing on men with prostate cancer, this paper considers the problems of finding out what patients are really experiencing, and how nurses can help improve things.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland.
authors.forename: Jerome
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marley
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing*; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing*