Had you looked up “quality of life” (QOL) in Index Medicus premature deaths. Procedures ranging from joint replacement priorto1975, yoursearchwouldhavebeenfruitless. Although and coronary bypass surgery to treatments for arthritis and thetermwasmostlikely?rstintroducedby Karnofskyin1949 sleep disturbances do little to increase longevity; rather, they within the realm of chemotherapy for cancer patients (1), it make it easier for the person to function in his or her daily was not used as a key word in Index Medicus for another 26 life. A cynical perspective would say that clinicians are now interested in QOL to justify their existence, as interventions years. Since that time, there has been an exponential growth in such as hip replacement cannot be rationalized on the basis the number of articles about QOL. Figure 1 shows the number of preserving lives. However, as people live longer, they do of unique articles cited each year in Medline and Psyc Info: 7 in fact become more susceptible to disorders and conditions in 1970, 331 in 1980, not quite 1800 in 1990, slightly over that interfere with activities of daily living and consequently 6000 in 2000, and nearly 11, 000 in 2005. Once the domain of decrease their QOL. mainly medicine and psychology, QOL has found its way into A second factor is the realization that QOL is not syno- every aspect of health care, including physiotherapy, oc- mous with the absence of symptoms: patients with serious pational therapy, social work, nursing, and others.
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Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine.- Patient Versus Proxy Ratings of Quality of Life.- Criteria for Evaluating Quality of Life Measurement Tools.- Human Sleep.- Sleep Disorders.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Insomnia.- Effects of Hypnotics on Sleep and Quality of Life in Insomnia.- Melatonin and Quality of Life.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Sleep Apnea.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Narcolepsy.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Restless Legs Syndrome.- Quality of Life in Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Hypersomnia.- Sleep and Quality of Life in REM Sleep Parasomnia.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Non-REM-Related Parasomnias.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Older People.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Children.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Traumatic Brain Injury and Guillain–Barré Syndrome.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease and the Dementias.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Headache and Migraine.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Chronic Pain.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Neuromuscular Disease.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Autism.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Anxiety Disorders.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Depression.- Sleep and Quality of Life in ADHD.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Eating Disorders.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Schizophrenia.- Sleep, Psychological Trauma, and Quality of Life.- Caffeine, Sleep, and Quality of Life.- Sleep, Alcohol, and Quality of Life.- Drugs of Abuse, Sleep, and Quality of Life.- Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and Quality of Life in People Who Have Cardiovascular Disease.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Heart Failure and Stroke.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Cardiac Surgery.- Quality of Life and Sleep Disturbances in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Allergic Rhinitis.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Renal Disease.- Sleep Disorders and Quality of Life in Patients After Kidney Transplantation.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Nocturia and Nocturnal Polyuria.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Cystic Fibrosis.- Sleep and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Obesity.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Endocrine Diseases.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Diabetes.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Head and Neck Neoplasm.- Menopause, Sleep, and Quality of Life.- Sleep and Quality of Life in Pregnancy and Postpartum.- Sleep and Quality of Life in HIV and AIDS.
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