ABSTRACT
Quality of life (QoL) is an important health outcome and represents the primary aim of all medical interventions. The term QoL has been is frequently used in medical and philosophical literature in recent decades and has become an important concept and goal of public health research. Traditionally, biomedical results rather than QoL were the basic endpoints in clinical and public health research. However, recent research is increasingly focusing on the study of QoL in patients and the making use of QoL assessment has increased considerably. The concept of QoL has led to extensive research and has been used by the professional medical community in the treatment of a broad array of diseases. Literature search methods included database searches Scopus, Web of Science, MedLine, the Cochrane Library. Historical trends in the concept of QoL are discussed in this article and issues related to the conceptual and methodological aspects of constructing QoL in the context of health care.
Subject(s)
Concept Formation , Quality of Life , HumansABSTRACT
The article discusses an approach to assessing the level of maturity of medical technologies based on the TRL (technology readiness level) methodology. The author presents a tool for planning scientific results and developments in the direction of «medical sciences¼ with a clear description of the expected results at each level of research and development. The levels of technological maturity of developments in the field of healthcare are described in detail, possible results and reporting forms for each level are presented, their differences are analyzed depending on the planned final product. Also presented are proposals for the distribution of powers between the state and business to finance the process of creating and implementing a new medical technology, depending on its stage of maturity.
