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7. Applications of Quality-of-Life Measures and Areas for Cooperative Research
7. Applications of Quality-of-Life Measures and Areas for Cooperative Research
Pages 116-118
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Many researchers supplement accepted generic measures win specific measures that seem appropriate for a particular group, disease, or treatment Researchers emphasize Me importance of focusing on these existing generic and specific measures and establishing more firmly their reliabili~ and validity, rather Man increasing the variety of measures. Clinicians Acknowledgment: The issues and ideas presented in this chapter are drawn in large part from the summary statements of Frederick bIosteller, John E
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Clinicians are the key to He future of quality-of-life measurement in assessing health care because Hey form the frord line. Researchers must cianfy the relationship between clinical and general heath measures as a way for clinicians to appraise and appreciate what quality-of-life scores or changes In scores mean In Heir clinical practice.
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Methodology investigators can provide technical assistance to those measuring heady outcomes and may share costs if me additional methodological work is expensive. Sponsors of bow types of research win receive more information and thus a greater return on Weir research ~nve;stment.
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