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ZJUS-B
Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B (Biomedicine & Biotechnology)  2005, Vol. 6 Issue (9): 936-940    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2005.B0936
Biomedicine     
A systematic review: How to choose appropriate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures in routine general practice?
CHEN Tian-hui, LI Lu, KOCHEN Michael M.
Institute of Social and Family Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310006, China; Department of General Practice, Goettingen University, Goettingen 37073, Germany
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Abstract  In more recent times, health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurements have formed an important part of assessing the quality of routine care in general practice. For a measure to have clinical usefulness it must not only be valid, appropriate, reliable, responsive, and capable of being interpreted, but it must also be simple, fast to complete, easy to score, and provide useful clinical data. The Two-step method of choosing appropriate measures is introduced. Then through comparison of generic instruments with disease-specific instruments, we can conclude that sometimes a combination of generic and disease-specific HRQOL measures may be more appropriate for monitoring changes in a patient’s health status due to an intervention.

Key words： Health-related quality of life (HRQOL)      Generic      Disease-specific      Measure      General practice     
Received: 21 April 2005     
CLC:  R19  
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CHEN Tian-hui, LI Lu, KOCHEN Michael M.. A systematic review: How to choose appropriate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures in routine general practice?. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B (Biomedicine & Biotechnology), 2005, 6(9): 936-940.

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