Description of a health-related quality of life conceptual model.

Outcomes are key to understanding the effectiveness of patient care. By incorporating patient outcomes such as health-related quality of life (HRQOL) into practice, researchers, administrators, and clinicians can determine optimal strategies for patient care. This article describes a health-related quality of life conceptual model. By uniting the biomedical and social science paradigms, this outcome model could be used for describing, explaining, and predicting quality patient care.