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In the minds of many health researchers, quality of life assessment is still a marketing gimmick: a newfangled outcome measure which can be tacked onto a traditional clinical trial. Inclusion of these trendy instruments shows concern for the “softer” values in therapy on the part of the investigator or sponsor and, with a little luck, might actually demonstrate a difference favoring the experimental group. Such a narrow view does not reflect the maturity of today’s quality of life assessment techniques. More importantly, it fails to acknowledge the central importance of patients’ values in health care decision-making.
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Read, J.L. (1990). Quality of Life, Clinical Trials, and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Conceptual Issues with Hypertension as an Example. In: Laaser, U., Roccella, E.J., Rosenfeld, J.B., Wenzel, H. (eds) Costs and Benefits in Health Care and Prevention. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75781-5_16
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