| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Quality of Life Theory -- Statistical Methods for PROMS and QoL -- Research Methods for PROMS and QoL -- Methodology for Systematic Reviews on Measurement Properties of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) -- Quality of life as endpoint in surgical randomised controlled trials -- The role of Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMS) and Health-related Quality-of-Life (HRQoL) in Economic Analysis -- Quality of Life following Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery -- Quality of life after upper GI Surgery -- Patient-reported quality of life after pancreatic and liver surgery -- Quality of Life in Head & Neck Surgical Oncology and Thyroid Surgery -- Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcomes in Breast Cancer -- Quality of Life After Colorectal Surgery -- Quality of life after lung cancer surgery -- Health-Related Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcome Measures following Transplantation Surgery |
| Summary |
This book provides a guide to the assessment of quality of life and patient reported outcomes measures in general surgery. The rapidly emerging field helps contextualise patients and helps the decision-making process within health economics, bedside medicine, public health, and health policy. All subspecialties of general surgery are covered, as well as the core principles of quality of life. The book aims to demonstrate how clinicians and policymakers can easily get access to a single source of patient reported outcomes measures and quality of life evidence to help them make the best-informed decisions in the field of general surgery. This book is relevant to healthcare managers, doctors, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, consultants, healthcare economists, and medical statisticians working in healthcare |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 16, 2023) |
| Subject |
Surgery.
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Outcome assessment (Medical care)
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Quality of life -- Health aspects
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Patient satisfaction.
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General Surgery
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Patient Satisfaction
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surgery (health care function)
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Outcome assessment (Medical care)
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Patient satisfaction
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Surgery
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Athanasiou, Thanos.
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Patel, Vanash
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Darzi, Ara.
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| ISBN |
3031275977 |
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9783031275975 |
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