Quality Assurance

Assessments help physicians become more aware of quality-of-life issues

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 7th, 2003

Incorporating standardized health-related quality-of-life (HRQL) assessments in cancer treatment settings can improve communication between doctors and patients about the patient's overall well-being, according to Symone B. Detmar, PhD, and colleagues from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.

They evaluated the effectiveness of standardized HRQL assessments in facilitating patient-physician communication and increasing physicians' awareness of their patients' HRQL-related problems.

"In recent years, interest has been expressed in the use of HRQL assessments in daily clinical practice as an aid to detect physical or psychosocial problems that...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-01-07)

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