A Review on Palliative Care Research Outcomes: Focus on the Quality of Life.
- Author:
In Cheol HWANG
1
;
Hong Yup AHN
Author Information
1. Department of Family Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Incheon, Korea.
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Palliative care;
Outcome assessment;
Quality of life
- MeSH:
Consensus;
Humans;
Palliative Care;
Quality of Life
- From:Korean Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
2012;15(3):141-146
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Over the past several decades, the assessment of quality of life (QoL) has increasingly played a prominent role in both clinical practice and research regardless of the medical field. Palliative care is defined as an approach that improves the QoL of patients and their families and optimizing their QoL is the primary goal of palliative care. However, it is difficult to compare related studies due to several obstacles such as discrepancies in definitions for palliative medicine, lack of consensus on the central domains and diverse instruments. In this paper, we examined the current status of and challenges in QoL studies and discussed possible solutions. We are convinced this review will be helpful for further palliative care studies.
