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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828355203321

Autore

Staff Institute of Medicine

Titolo

Quality of Life and Technology Assessment [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : National Academies Press, 1989

ISBN

1-280-21419-8

9786610214198

0-309-58220-2

0-585-15403-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 p.)

Disciplina

613

Soggetti

Electronic books. -- local

Medical technology

Quality of life

Technology Assessment, Biomedical

Hypertension

Quality of Life

Ethics, Medical

Pharmaceutical Preparations

Methods

Biomedical Technology

Liver

Organ Transplantation

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Investigative Techniques

Ethics, Clinical

Life

Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms

Technology

Transplantation

Social Sciences

Digestive System

Vascular Diseases

Ethics, Professional

Cardiovascular Diseases

Surgical Procedures, Operative

Anatomy

Health Care

Technology, Industry, and Agriculture



Quality of Health Care

Philosophy

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Ethics

Humanities

Diseases

Medical Technology

Medicine

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Quality of Life and Technology Assessment""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Conceptual Background and Issues in Quality of Life""; ""CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND""; ""A Continuum of Health-Related Measures""; ""Health Status""; ""Quality-of-Life Measures""; ""ISSUES RELATING TO SELECTING HEALTH AND QUALITY-OF-LIFE MEASURES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 The Use of Quality-of-Life Measures in Technology Assessment""; ""LITERATURE REVIEWS""; ""Study Design""; ""Not Reinventing the Wheel""; ""THE VALUE OF ASSESSING QUALITY OF LIFE AS AN OUTCOME""; ""Work Status""

""DIAGNOSIS�AN OPEN PROBLEM""""ROLES OF THE EXAMPLES""; ""TWELVE APPLICATIONS OF QUALITY-OF-LIFE MEASURES TO TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT""; ""Study 1. Antihypertensive Medications""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 2. Arthritis Medications""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 3. Adjuvant Chemotherapy""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""

""Comments""""Study 4. Alternative Chemotherapy Regimens in Advanced Breast Cancer""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 5. Counseling for Stage IV Cancer""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 6. Surgery for Breast Cancer""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""

""Study 7. Cardiac Transplant and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery""""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 8. Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 9. Long-term Dialysis and Renal Transplant""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 10. Renal Transplantation and Dialysis""; ""Key""

""Description of Measures""""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods"";



""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 11. Case Management and Usual and Customary Services for Chronically Mentally Ill Patients""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""Study 12. Health Insurance Payment Mechanisms""; ""Key""; ""Description of Measures""; ""Purpose of the Study""; ""Methods""; ""Results and Conclusions""; ""Comments""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Quality-of-Life Measures in Liver Transplantation""

""QUALITY-OF-LIFE MEASURES""