A Review on Palliative Care Research Outcomes: Focus on the Quality of Life / 한국호스피스완화의료학회지
Korean Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
; : 141-146, 2012.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-92251
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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.
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Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Palliative Care
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Quality of Life
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Consensus
Type of study:
Practice guideline
Aspects:
Patient-preference
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
Year:
2012
Document type:
Article