The pediatric quality of life inventory: measuring pediatric health-related quality of life from the perspective of children and their parents. Academic Article

abstract

• Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has been recognized as an important outcome, some contend the most important outcome for children's health care interventions. The PedsQL Measurement Model was designed as a modular approach to measuring pediatric health-related quality of life, developed to integrate the relative merits of generic and disease-specific approaches. We suggest that part of the process of improving the quality of health care includes measuring HRQOL outcomes from the perspective of children and their parents on a routine basis, consistent with a consumer-based health care system approach.

authors

• Varni, James

published proceedings

• Pediatr Clin North Am

author list (cited authors)

• Varni, J. W., & Limbers, C. A.

citation count

• 225

complete list of authors

• Varni, James W||Limbers, Christine A

publication date

• August 2009

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Pediatric Clinics of North America  Journal

keywords

• Arthritis
• Asthma
• Brain Neoplasms
• Cerebral Palsy
• Child
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
• Fatigue
• Health Status
• Heart Diseases
• Humans
• Neoplasms
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care
• Parents
• Pediatrics
• Quality Of Life
• Rheumatic Diseases
• Risk Assessment
• Sensitivity And Specificity
• Surveys And Questionnaires
• Translations
• United States

PubMed Central ID

• 19660631

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.pcl.2009.05.016

start page

• 843

end page

• 863

volume

• 56

issue

• 4

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.pcl.2009.05.016

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being