This article provides an introduction to the measurement of quality of life or subjective health status. It considers difficulties in defining the concept and the uses of subjective health status measures and describes common approaches to measurement. The criteria used to select a measure for inclusion in a study are summarised and some of the more commonly used measures are described.

The cross-national consistency and variation of gender differences in subjective health complaints was examined in a sample of 125732 11- to 15-year-olds from 29 European and North American countries, participating in the WHO collaborative study 'Health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) 1997/98'. Health complaints were measured with the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Symptom Ch...

background: according to age, history and physical examination findings, there are different diagnoses including anatomic lesions for abnormal uterine bleeding (aub). in these conditions, hysteroscopy can be performed as a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure. objective: the aim of this study was defining the diagnostic value of hysteroscopy in evaluating uterine cavity in patients with aub com...

The about a hundred central concepts related to research in the global quality of life can, in a holistic medical frame of interpretation, be organized under ten abstract key concepts: existence, creation of the world, state of being, daily living, talents, relations, sex, health, personal development, and therapy with subthemes as discussed in this paper. The paper shows that the concepts in e...

Knowledge of illness perception may aid the identification of groups of patients with a higher risk of coping poorly with the demands of their illness. This study aims to investigate associations between illness perception, clinical characteristics, patient knowledge, quality of life and subjective health in persons with psoriasis. The present study was based on cross-sectional data from patien...

Of the three forms of protest the propensity of word of mouth (WOM) seems to be the most common, and the most exclusive form of protest seems to be exit. The propensity for voice lies in between. The costs linked to voice influence the propensity for WOM. The customers seem to do an evaluation between the three forms of protest, yet the rational picture of the customers should be moderated. Lea...

A large amount of evidence shows that the subjective evaluation of health is a predictor of survival in many different populations. Subjective health (SH) is measured using different types of measures such as a general evaluation of health or a comparative evaluation of health. The aim of this study was to compare the prediction of survival by two measures of SH (a general measure and an age-re...

Some image quality measures are proposed in this paper. The most desired feature of these method is high correlation with diagnostic accuracy of compressed medical images. The chi-square measure (global and local) as a measure of statistical similarity of original and compressed image data, REOBD as a measure of blocking effect and diagnostic quality coefficient give vector measure of diagnosti...

Background Acutely admitted patients with respiratory symptoms remains a diagnostic challenge. At the primary evaluation the clinician has to rely on the clinical examination when initiating treatment and further diagnostic work up. Several studies have questioned the diagnostic performance of the clinical examination. In addition, most of the diseases, which are commonly seen in patients with ...