title: [Criteria and tools for assessing quality of life in palliative care].
abstract: The concepts of quality of life and palliative care seem at first sight to be inextricably linked. However, it is worth questioning the interest of tools for assessing quality of life in the practice of palliative care. Effectively, these tools can have harmful consequences on the patient and provoke notably a loss of self-esteem.
authors.affiliation: Hospices civils de Lyon. brigitte.eugene@chu-lyon.fr
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Eugène
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D014944:World Health Organization