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...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Defining and Assessing Quality and Quality of Life
• The Difficulty of Assessing Quality or Quality of Life
• The Role of Language in Assessing Quality or Quality of Life
• The Role of Cognition in Assessing Quality or Quality of Life
• Part II: How to Assess Quality or Quality of Life
• The Role of Objectivity or Subjectivity
• The Role of Signs or Symptoms
• Summary Measurement: The Role of Categories or Domains
• Part III: What Content Should Be Included in a HRQOL Assessment?
• Should Symptoms Be Included in a HRQOL Assessment?
• Should Health Status Indicators Be Included in a HRQOL Assessment?
• Should Functional Status Indicators Be Included in a HRQOL Assessment?
• Should Neurocognitive Indicators Be Included in a HRQOL Assessment?
• Part IV: How Can Quality Be Evaluated?
• Can Well-Being Act as an Evaluator of Quality or Quality of Life?
• Can "Living the Good Life" (the Eudaimonic Model) Act as an Evaluator of Quality or Quality of Life?
• What Role Do Reflective Judgments (E.g. Values, Preferences, and Utility Estimates) Play in Evaluating Quality or Quality of Life?
• Part V: The Measurement of Quality, Quality of Life or HRQOL
• Qualitative Approaches to Quality or Quality of Life Assessment
• Quantitative Approaches to Quality of Life or HRQOL Assessment
• Part VI: Summary
• Glossary.