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Evaluating Health-Related Quality of Life in Ophthalmic Disease
Practical Considerations
Arch Ophthalmol. 2006;124:121-122.
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Every ophthalmologist is a quality-of-life expert: most of us devote our days not to "adding years to life," but rather to "adding life to years."1 The quality-of-life assessment that occurs during a busy clinic visit is typically brief and informal, asking primarily about vision symptoms and problems with specific visual tasks and ascertaining in broad terms the impact of eye disease on the patient’s overall well-being. Even such limited quality-of-life information, however, can be invaluable in determining which patient is most likely to benefit from surgery or other treatment. When formally assessed in a clinical research setting, quality-of-life data can be even more powerful: patients’ baseline quality of life has been shown to predict patient outcomes, need for physician services, and health service charges.2-4 This predictive ability of quality of life is independent of clinical and laboratory measures, indicating that quality-of-life measurement captures information that traditional biomedical parameters do not. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Elizabeth A. Bradley, MD, MHS;
David Bradley, MD;
George B. Bartley, MD
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