Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Clinic, Building A, 1365 Clifton Road Northeast Suite 1100, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Dermatol Clin. 2012 Apr;30(2):343-7, x. doi: 10.1016/j.det.2011.11.005. Epub 2011 Dec 21.
Within the last few decades, outcomes research, and in particular quality of life (QoL) outcomes research, has become integrated into clinical and research practices. QoL outcomes are important to dermatology, because many diseases carry significant psychosocial burdens and morbidity from appearance and symptoms with few cases of mortality. In this article, the authors discuss the future directions in QoL. Important areas are the determination, clinical significance and interpretation of measured QoL values. Additionally, the development of proxies for preference-based QoL measures and modules for health status QoL measures are discussed.
在过去几十年中，结局研究，特别是生活质量（QoL）结局研究，已经融入临床和研究实践中。QoL 结局对皮肤病学很重要，因为许多疾病都有明显的心理社会负担和因外观和症状导致的发病率，而很少有死亡病例。在本文中，作者讨论了 QoL 的未来方向。重要的领域包括确定、临床意义和解释测量的 QoL 值。此外，还讨论了偏好为基础的 QoL 测量代理和健康状况 QoL 测量模块的开发。
