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Abstract

Quality of life (QoL) assessment is a tool that measures the patient’s feeling of well-being and it has been increasingly used in many fields related to health care. The broader concept of general QOL related to health care can be named health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

This chapter discusses the definitions and applications of the HRQol, as well as the instruments used to measure it. It shows the selection and development of the questionnaires, their types, pros, and cons.

Furthermore it talks about the application of minimally invasive surgery, mainly the robot in abdominal wall hernia repair (AHR) and its outcomes, especially regarding the HRQol and its methods.

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  1. University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil

    Ulysses Ribeiro Jr.

  2. Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, ICESP-HCFMUSP, São Paulo, Brazil

    Ulysses Ribeiro Jr.

  3. Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, ICESP-HCFMUSP, São Paulo, Brazil

    Silvia Takanohashi Kobayashi

  4. Center for Translational Research in Oncology – Instituto do Câncer do Estado de Sâo Paulo, ICESP, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Alessandro Gonçalves Campolina

  5. National Institute for Science and Technology for Health Technology Assessment (IATS/CNPq), Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Alessandro Gonçalves Campolina

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Ribeiro, U., Kobayashi, S.T., Campolina, A.G. (2018). Quality of Life. In: Abdalla, R., Costa, T. (eds) Robotic Surgery for Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55527-0_9

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