Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Aug 2016
ReviewWhat Aspects of Quality of Life Are Important from Palliative Care Patients' Perspectives? A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research.
Despite the availability of numerous tools professing to measure quality of life (QOL) in the palliative care setting, no single instrument includes all patient-valued domains. ⋯ A broad range of domains are important to the QOL of people with life-limiting illnesses receiving palliation. Refinement of measures is needed to help ensure services address issues valued by patients such as preparation for death and aspects of health care provision, elements which are seldom included in currently available preference-based measures used to inform value for money decisions in palliative care.