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Comparing professional and patient perspectives on quality of life
Author(s)	Christopher McKevitt, Charles Wolfe, Vincent La Placa
Corporate Author	Growing Older (GO) Programme, Economic & Social Research Council - ESRC
Journal title	GO Findings: 2 - Research Findings from the Growing Older Programme, March 2002
Publisher	ESRC, Sheffield, March 2002
Pages	4 pp
Source	ESRC Growing Older Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gop/index.htm
Keywords	Stroke ; Medical care ; Quality of life ; Attitude ; Medical workers ; In-patients ; Comparison ; Research Reviews.
Annotation	Quality of life (QoL) is thought to be an important concept in health care, and the measurement of patient quality of life is widely advocated. Yet quality of life is not well defined, and there is little information about how health professionals understand the term. In this project, stroke and stroke care is used as a case study to make the concept of quality of life itself the object of investigation. The project was based on a postal survey of, and face-to-face interviews with, professionals working with stroke patients, interviews with stroke patients aged 60+, and detailed observations in a stroke unit. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020612206 A
Classmark	CQA: LK: F:59: DP: QT: LF7: 48: 3A:6KC
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