Quality of life is a process not an outcome.
Theor Med Bioeth
; 33(4): 279-92, 2012 Aug.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22798191
ABSTRACT
Quality improvement mechanisms increasingly use outcome measures to evaluate health care providers. This move toward outcome measures is a radical departure from the traditional focus on process measures. More radical still is the proposal to shift from relatively simple and proximal measures of outcome, such as mortality, to complex outcomes, such as quality of life. While the practical, scientific, and ethical issues associated with the use of outcomes such as mortality and morbidity to compare health care providers have been well rehearsed, the specific concerns associated with the use of quality of life measures in quality of care research have received little attention. As with much research on quality of life there is a tendency to assume that the disadvantages are outweighed by the general virtue of "listening" to patients. In this paper we disagree with this assumption and argue that quality of life is a process, not an outcome.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Qualidade de Vida
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Avaliação de Processos em Cuidados de Saúde
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Satisfação do Paciente
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Programas Nacionais de Saúde
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Theor Med Bioeth
Assunto da revista:
ETICA
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos