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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.


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Furthermore, health-related quality of life measures have tended to limit the quality of life components to the social, emotional and physical wellbeing of a patient following treatment and to the impact of disease and treatment.
Use of the SF-36 and other health-related quality of life measures to assess persons with disabilities.
10,11) Health domain outcome measures include health-related quality of life measures, quality of life being defined as "the gap between that which is desired in life and that which is achieved.
 
 
 
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