Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Clinical Trials

摘要: During the last decade, importance of measuring aspects health status related to patients’ function and subjective experience has become increasingly recognized. The methods available for how patients feel, they function, have more sophisticated. term “quality life” appeared as a label measurement physical emotional (as opposed biochemical physiological) function.1 Of course, quality life is influenced by many factors other than one’s (such income, job satisfaction, social opportunities); what researchers are interested in “health-related (HRQL). We will use HRQL refer wide variety experiences (including symptoms, function) which health.