 | Kim D. Rainsford - Medical - 1995 - 254 pages
...satisfaction or living standards,61 some, such as that of Cella and Tulsky,63 define health-related QOL as patients' appraisal of and satisfaction with their...compared to what they perceive to be possible or ideal. The latter authors stress that QOL instruments should include sense of well-being and satisfaction... | |
 | Carrie P. Hunter, Karen A. Johnson, Hyman B. Muss - Medical - 2000 - 591 pages
...proposed definitions: (a) ' 'Quality of life is the subjective evaluation of life as a whole" (8): and (b) Quality of life ' 'refers to patients' appraisal of...satisfaction with their current level of functioning compared to what they perceive to be possible or ideal" (9). The first definition emphasizes the subjectivity... | |
 | Ian McDowell - Medical - 2006 - 768 pages
...understood from the patient's perspective; it cannot be measured by observing a patient's behavior. QoL "refers to patients' appraisal of and satisfaction with their current level of functioning compared to what they perceive to be possible or ideal" (1, p9). QoL considers not only people's level... | |
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refers to patients' appraisal of and satisfaction with their current level of functioning compared to what they perceive to be possible or ideal 