Integrating QOL assessments for clinical and research purposes.
QOL questionnaires can be a useful tool for patients, clinicians, and researchers. Although each has a different goal and investment in the data, each of these perspectives can contribute to truly collaborative care in which the needs of the patient are met.
Halyard
Michele Y
MY
Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
Frost
Marlene H
MH
Dueck
Amylou
A
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011788:Quality of Life; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile