Measuring Quality of Life in Epilepsy Surgery Patients
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Measuring quality of life in epilepsy surgery patients.
Treatment of chronic conditions often entails trade-offs between benefits and risks or side effects. This is of particular importance in epilepsy. Consequently, assessment of effectiveness must incorporate this trade-off as perceived by the recipient of the intervention, ie., the patient. Measurement of health related quality of life (HRQOL) aims at capturing such patient-centred effects of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0317-1671
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100000767