Asthma outcomes: quality of life.

ABSTRACT:

Background

"Asthma-related quality of life" (QOL) refers to the perceived impact that asthma has on the patient's QOL.

Objective

National Institutes of Health institutes and other federal agencies convened an expert group to recommend standardized measures of the impact of asthma on QOL for use in future asthma clinical research.

Methods

We reviewed published documentation regarding the development and psychometric evaluation; clinical research use since 2000; and extent to which the content of each existing QOL instrument provides a unique, reliable, and valid assessment of the intended construct. We classified instruments as core (required in future studies), supplemental (used according to the study's aims and standardized), or emerging (requiring validation and st

SUBMITTER: Wilson SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4269375 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature