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Quality of life in allergic rhinitis
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 02/03/2012
Ozdoganoglu T et al. – Health–related quality of life focuses on patients’ perceptions of their disease and measures impairments that have a significant impact on the patient. The burden of disease, as the patient perceives it, forms the basic motivation to seek medical aid or to undergo therapy. Adherence to therapy requires changes in health, perceived by patients as relevant and outweighing eventual disadvantages of intervention. Because so many factors are involved in health–related quality of life, there are multiple ways in which it can be measured.