Journal article
Quality of Life Instruments in the Evaluation of New Drugs
Abstract
The importance of measuring changes in a patient’s quality of life when evaluating the efficacy of new drugs is increasingly recognised. In this paper, we review the steps associated with this process — recognising the opportunity and the need to include quality of life instruments during the investigation, choosing the most suitable instrument(s) and interpreting the results. To be useful in clinical trials, quality of life measures must be …
Authors
Jaeschke R; Guyatt GH; Cook D
Journal
PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 84–93
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2 1992
DOI
10.2165/00019053-199201020-00004
ISSN
1170-7690