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Evaluation of Measures Used to Assess Quality of Life After Stroke

Author(s) -

Deborah Buck,

Ann Jacoby,

Anna Massey,

Gary A. Ford

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/01.str.31.8.2004

Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , quality of life (healthcare) , physical therapy , reliability (semiconductor) , proxy (statistics) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , scale (ratio) , stroke recovery , activities of daily living , rehabilitation , statistics , mechanical engineering , power (physics) , physics , nursing , quantum mechanics , engineering , mathematics

Assessment of quality of life (QOL) after stroke is becoming common with the recognition that evaluation of treatment should include quality as well as quantity of survival. This article will outline the main conceptual and methodological issues in QOL assessment, highlight advantages and disadvantages of measures used in stroke QOL research, and discuss some unresolved issues.

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