Van Dam F
Bull Cancer. 1986;73(5):607-13.
The concept "Quality of Life" is a fairly popular concept in both the medical and lay press. However, from the literature it appears that it is operationalized in a diversity of ways and rarely a conceptual analysis of this term is given. In this paper a number of rules are given for the measurement of Quality of Life. A plea is made for a more thorough analysis of the research questions in oncology which pertain to quality of life and the role of quality of life outcome in medical decision making. It is mandatory that all involved in patient care specialists, general practitioners, nurses, social workers and psychologists should be involved in the design of quality of life studies in oncology.
“生活质量”这一概念在医学和大众媒体中都是相当流行的概念。然而，从文献来看，它的操作化方式多种多样，而且很少对这个术语进行概念分析。本文给出了一些生活质量测量的规则。有人呼吁对肿瘤学中与生活质量相关的研究问题以及生活质量结果在医疗决策中的作用进行更深入的分析。肿瘤患者护理所涉及的所有人——专科医生、全科医生、护士、社会工作者和心理学家都必须参与肿瘤学生活质量研究的设计。
