title: [Analysis of quality of life: quality management or illusion?].
abstract: Today, quality of life research and analysis of quality of life in total quality management are widely used in the area of the health-care system. In the very beginning, in the middle of the last century, quality of life research was motivated by political, socioeconomic, ecological, humanistic, medical and scientific objectives. Some goals in quality of life research were reached. But quality of life research has also been instrumentalised and misused. Input, profit and risks of quality of life research in different areas of the health-care system as well as further perspectives are emphasised.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Ulm. mechthild.determann@uniklinik-ulm.de
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Determann
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D005858:Germany; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000191:economics