QUALITY-OF-LIFE IN CANCER - DEFINITION, PURPOSE, AND METHOD OF MEASUREMENT
QUALITY-OF-LIFE IN CANCER - DEFINITION, PURPOSE, AND METHOD OF MEASUREMENT
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DOI：
10.3109/07357909309024860
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发表时间：
1993-01-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
TULSKY, DS
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作者：
CELLA, DF;TULSKY, DS
在过去的 20 年里，医学和社会的变化鼓励了对医疗目标和重要结果的概念化和评估的扩展。在评估癌症和其他慢性病患者的护理时，扩展的一个主要部分是除了与各种治疗相关的生命数量之外，还纳入了评估生活质量的手段。本文综述了肿瘤学研究和实践中生活质量评估的最新文献。该综述围绕当前对生活质量的定义、生活质量测量的目的、评估方法以及特定疾病与一般健康结果测量的竞争优势和劣势的思考进行组织。提供了在肿瘤学中进行生活质量测量的建议，以鼓励更多地关注与理论构建密切相关的必要性。
Over the past 20 years, changes within medicine and society have encouraged an expansion in conceptualizing and evaluating the goals and important outcomes of medical treatments. In evaluating the care of people with cancer and other chronic illnesses, a major part of the expansion has been the inclusion of means to assess the quality of life in addition to the quantity of life associated with various treatments. This paper presents a review of the current literature on quality-of-life assessment in oncology research and practice. The review is organized around current thinking about the definition of quality of life, the purpose of quality-of-life measurement, the method of assessment, and the competing advantages and disadvantages of disease-specific versus general health outcome measurement. Recommendations for proceeding with quality-of-life measurement in oncology are provided to encourage increased attention to the need to remain closely tied to a theoretical construct.