Korean J Hosp Palliat Care.  2012 Sep;15(3):141-146.

A Review on Palliative Care Research Outcomes: Focus on the Quality of Life

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Family Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Incheon, Korea.
  • 2Department of Statistics, Dongguk University-Seoul, Seoul, Korea. ahn@dongguk.edu

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.

Keyword

Palliative care; Outcome assessment; Quality of life

MeSH Terms

Consensus
Humans
Palliative Care
Quality of Life
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