Abstract
Over the past decade, assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQL) has become a recognized end-point in randomized surgical trials and in other research settings. It is an important endpoint because HRQL captures the patients' perspective of outcome and can be used to compliment clinical outcomes to influence decision making and inform consent for surgery. This chapter will consider the definition of HRQL, methods for developing HRQL tools, and using HRQL in outcomes research, and it will review the current and future research and clinical applications of HRQL assessment. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.
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Blazeby, J. M. (2010). Health-related quality of life and its measurement in surgery - Concepts and methods. In Key Topics in Surgical Research and Methodology (pp. 129–139). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71915-1_11
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