Aspects of Health-Related Quality of Life Associations with psychosocial and biological factors, and use as patient-reported outcome in routine health care
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.............................................................................................................. 1 LIST OF PAPERS ..................................................................................................... 3 ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 7 The concept of Health-Related Quality of Life ............................................. 7 Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life ........................................ 12 Models of Health-Related Quality of Life ................................................ 13 Health-Related Quality of Life as a determinant of mortality ............... 15 Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life ............................................... 19 EQ-5D .......................................................................................................... 20 SF-36 ............................................................................................................ 22 Health-Related Quality of Life as patient-reported outcome in routine health care ........................................................................................................ 24 Usefulness of measures of Health-Related Quality of Life..................... 25 Aims of the thesis ............................................................................................ 28 METHODS .............................................................................................................. 29 Papers I and II .................................................................................................. 29 Paper III ............................................................................................................ 32 Paper IV ............................................................................................................ 34 RESULTS ................................................................................................................. 36 Associations of Health-Related Quality of Life with psychosocial and biological factors ............................................................................................. 36 Use of Health-Related Quality of Life as a patient-reported outcome in routine health care ........................................................................................... 39
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تاریخ انتشار 2012