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HS499 Bachelor’s Capstone
Week 4 SeminarQOL Research
Seminar Questions Discuss your status report on your progress with your
research project. Include your impression of the availability of outside resources to include in your research. Indicate which areas you think you may be in need of further assistance in developing your project.
Discuss the articles assigned for Unit 4; select one and provide your interpretation of the research performed. What methodology was used? How was the data collected? What were the findings? What were the implications of this research for future health care delivery? Remember to include the source citations for outside resources used in forming your comments.
Article 1
Abstract:
Article 1
The authors note that “quality of life is an important end point in the care of patients with cancer”
System integration of QOL assessments in clinical settings lags behind importance
The task is to identify how QOL data can be integrated formally, systematically and efficiently into clinical practice to aid in patient care.
Article 1
Further noted is the evidence suggesting the need to optimize processes and outcomes through implementation of multicomponent inverventions
Six components of optimal care of illness as indicated by the Institute of Medicine:
Safe Timely Evidence based Efficient equitable Patient centered
Article 1 Article one stresses that the “core of patient
centered care is the concept of self-management or patients’ active and central role in managing their illness”.
This is accomplished in two ways Group Level Data: Example: prophylactic mastectomy for women at
high risk of breast cancer due to a strong family history
Example: conservative surgery instead of mastectomy
Article 1 2. Individual Data:
Article 1 The authors indicate that “patient completion of
QOL questionnaires before intervention is useful in providing a baseline in which the patient serves as his or her own control”.
Integrating these QOL assessments have short and long term outcomes
Examples: short term increased awareness for the patient, decrease time for clinician to determine patient concerns, and long term changes in QOL, patient reported outcomes, patient management and overall satisfaction with management of care.
Article 1 The process of collecting QOL data is
accomplished by: Administration of paper and pencil
questionnaires Computer assisted touch screen self
administration of questionnaires Computerized interviews Computerized data collection appears to be
preferred as opposed to interviews.
Article 1 Outcomes have been favorable by identifying
QOL problems and enhancing communication between patients and their clinicians
Psychosocial outcomes have also been favorable for generalized distress, mental health, anxiety and stress or depression
The authors note that “few studies provided longitudinal data so that a person’s function from one time to another could be compared”.
Article 1 Here are examples of the types of questionnaires
that may be administered to patients for QOL
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Article 1 Several barriers are recognized and should be
addressed in implementing QOL assessment in the clinical setting:
The belief that QOL is easily obtained by asking patients how they are doing
The possibility that clinicians could feel inadequate in their ability to address some of the issues identified by their patients
Concern that with the identification of additional needs comes the responsibility of addressing those needs.
Article 1
Article 1 Study conclusion:
Article 2 HRQL: health related quality of life Authors believe that this is an art and a science These assessments have been successfully used
to change and influence patient and physician communication
It is further demonstrated that this results in improved patient satisfaction
Article 2 Authors indicate that clinical practice may be
improved by Aiding detection of physical or psychosocial
problems that might be overlook Monitoring disease and treatment Allowing precisely timed alterations in
therapeutic plans Facilitating patient-physician communication Improving the delivery of care
Article 2 The authors identify the critical
elements necessary for the success of HRQL assessments include:
Availability of acceptable set of measures from which to choose
Clinical relevance and ease of use Buy in from clinic staff and patients
for effective implementation
Article 2 Authors further note that survey instruments must
be reliable and valid They define reliability as “an instrument’s
dependability, expressed as the extent to which it either measures something accurately or produces the same score on repeated applications”.
“Validity refers to the extent to which an instrument measure what it proposes to measure”
Article 2
Article 2 Figure 1 shows an organizing model with the
hypothesis that the link between clinical and HRQL variables is stronger for self-reported disease symptoms than for more general health perceptions.
Table 2 shows data from selected studies of the reliability of common clinical and HRQL measurements
It provides a range of reliability estimates within each measurement category
Article 2
Article 2 There are several examples of how HRQL data
utilization is used as the primary source of decision making:
Pain management Asthma HIV Gastrointestinal disorders Rheumatoid Arthritis
Article 2 Author’s conclusion