{"title":"Description of a health-related quality of life conceptual model.","authors":"K H Sousa","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":79526,"journal":{"name":"Outcomes management for nursing practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Outcomes management for nursing practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.