The significance of quality of life in health care
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Quality of Life Research
- Vol. 12 (1suppl) , 3-16
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1023547632545
Abstract
This paper compares a traditional biomedical model with an outcomes model for evaluating health care. The traditional model emphasizes diagnosis and disease-specific outcomes. In contrast, the...Keywords
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