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This book provides a guide to the assessment of quality of life and patient reported outcomes measures in general surgery. The rapidly emerging field helps contextualise patients and helps the decision-making process within health economics, bedside medicine, public health, and health policy. All subspecialties of general surgery are covered, as well as the core principles of quality of life. The book aims to demonstrate how clinicians and policymakers can easily get access to a single source of patient reported outcomes measures and quality of life evidence to help them make the best-informed decisions in the field of general surgery. This book is relevant to healthcare managers, doctors, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, consultants, healthcare economists, and medical statisticians working in healthcare.

Surgery. --- Quality of life. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine --- Outcome assessment (Medical care) --- Patient satisfaction. --- Health attitudes --- Medical care --- Medical personnel and patient --- Satisfaction --- Assessment of outcome (Medical care) --- Outcome evaluation (Medical care) --- Outcome measures (Medical care) --- Outcomes assessment (Medical care) --- Outcomes measurement (Medical care) --- Outcomes research (Medical care) --- Patient outcome assessment --- Evaluation --- Outcome Assessment, Health Care --- General Surgery --- Patient Satisfaction --- Quality of Life --- HRQOL --- Health-Related Quality Of Life --- Life Quality --- Health Related Quality Of Life --- Life Style --- Cost of Illness --- Karnofsky Performance Status --- Value of Life --- Satisfaction, Patient --- Surgery --- Surgery, General --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Assessment, Outcomes --- Outcome Measures --- Outcome Studies --- Outcomes Assessment --- Outcome Assessment (Health Care) --- Outcomes Research --- Assessment, Outcome (Health Care) --- Assessments, Outcome (Health Care) --- Assessments, Outcomes --- Measure, Outcome --- Measures, Outcome --- Outcome Assessments (Health Care) --- Outcome Measure --- Outcome Study --- Outcomes Assessments --- Research, Outcomes --- Studies, Outcome --- Study, Outcome