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Be Careful With Counterfeit . . . 

Jean Jacques Grob, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(7):813-814.

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Quality of life is a concept that is very hard to define, although everybody has their own intuition of what it refers to. The idea of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) was born in highly developed countries, in which avoiding death was no longer the only health management challenge. Like all luxury and up-to-date products, HRQOL measures are open to counterfeit. The PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) tool¹ might be one of them. Whether it is a good or bad counterfeit remains to be known.

In the absence of a unique and good definition, HRQOL can pragmatically be defined as the result of qualitative questionnaires that have been developed and validated to measure HRQOL. They are either generic like the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) or more specific like the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) or Skindex questionnaires. Whatever the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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