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The aim of measuring quality of life will always be comparative. We may want to find out how a patient’s quality of life is affected by one kind of treatment as compared with another kind of treatment. Or, we may want to find out how much quality of life is gained by investing scarce health care resources in treating one kind of patient as compared with treating another kind of patient.
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Sandøe, P., Kappel, K. (1994). Changing Preferences: Conceptual Problems in Comparing Health-Related Quality of Life. In: Nordenfelt, L. (eds) Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care. European Studies in Philosophy of Medicine 1, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8344-2_10
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