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health-related quality of life measure |
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health-related quality of life measure Functional status measure, health status measure, quality of life measure Social medicine A patient outcome measure that extends beyond traditional measures of M&M, including dimensions such as
physiology, function, social activity, cognition, emotion, sleep/rest, energy/vitality, health perception, general life satisfaction; some are also known as health status, functional status, or quality of life measures. See Quality of life. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| According to Anderson & Burckhardt (1999) this confusion began when funding agencies began requiring that quality of life measures be used in outcome assessment, and researchers simply redefined existing measures of health status, disease symptom, and functional status as quality of life or health-related quality of life measures and administered them because they were already available. Others examine the validity of theory-linked psychometric measures and empirical support for assessment tools including health-related quality of life measures, practical intelligence (not assessed in traditional IQ tests), and non-English versions of standard tests (e. Scores for the eight domains of the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form General Health Survey (SF-36), a health-related quality of life measure, were lower than for the normal population at 1 yr. |
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