Quality Its Definition and Measurement As Applied to the Medically Ill /

• Main Author: Barofsky, Ivan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical research.; Medical ethics.; Quality of life.; Cognitive psychology.; Psychometrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Quality of Life Research.; Cognitive Psychology.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

Quality, as exemplified by Quality-of-life (QoL) assessment, is frequently discussed among health care professionals and often invoked as a goal for improvement, but somehow rarely defined, even as it is regularly assessed. It is understood that some medical patients have a better QoL than others, b...