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A Variation on Health-Related Quality of Life

Marta J. VanBeek, MD, MPH

Arch Dermatol. 2008;144(8):1037-1041.

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In this issue of the Archives, Chen et al¹ describe acne-related health utility states among adolescents. The study illustrates the value of health utilities in measuring patient preferences for treatment-related outcomes as a metric of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Like acne, many dermatologic diseases are chronic conditions, characterized by fluctuations in clinical severity. Treatments for such diseases may produce incremental improvements in lieu of a cure. Because most skin diseases do not wax or wane with clinical tests or laboratory values, determination of efficacy relies on subjective assessments of response by both physicians and patients. Health utility states, or patient preference–based HRQOL, are cogent subjective assessments from the patient perspective.²

Health-related quality of life is a complex outcome measure increasingly used in clinical trials and quality of care research.^3-4 Although it has been defined many ways, HRQOL is commonly characterized as the aspect . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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