Quality of Life as an Indicator of Outcome in the Treatment of Cancer Patients: : The Purchaser Perspectives
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
ISSN: 0952-6862
Article publication date: 1 June 1994
Abstract
Evaluation of treatment can be seen as part of a wider concern to measure quality of care, as well as about the need to monitor and improve the effectiveness of services. Quality of life issues will be of increasing interest to those involved in the commissioning of health‐care services. Cancer is used to illustrate how the quality of life of patients, both during and after treatment, can be measured and the information used by purchasers to consider the relative effectiveness of different methods of treatment. This in turn can inform the overall purchasing strategy of commissioning agencies.
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Citation
Morris, J. and Watt, A. (1994), "Quality of Life as an Indicator of Outcome in the Treatment of Cancer Patients: : The Purchaser Perspectives", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 4-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/09526869410059664
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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