Principles and Problems in the Assessment of Quality of Life in Health Care

A remarkable surge in efforts to assess the quality of life of patients has occurred in recent years in medical research. Philosophical discussions of these developments have focused, on the one hand, on epistemological reservations about the plausibility of measuring quality of life and, on the oth...

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Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Ray (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 1999
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 1999, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-46
Further subjects:B Measurement
B Validity
B Psychometrics
B Clinical Trials
B Quality of life
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