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Everyone wants quality of life (QoL), regardless whether a person is healthy or diseased. However, QoL means something different for every individual. QoL is not only influenced by the individual's preferences, wishes and expectations towards life, but also by the time of living, geographical, socioeconomic and political environment and, of course, the health state, which all contribute to the individual's resources to live with a high quality in happiness and satisfaction. The World Health Organization defines QoL as the individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns [1]. Due to this complexity and subjectively differently weighted factors, and also the fact that different disciplines define QoL differently, measurement of QoL is challenging in health and disease [2].
Abstract
Assessment of quality of life in pulmonary hypertension is important to identify additional therapeutic needs, and patients with good QoL have better prognosis. QoL assessment in PH care can be done with validated short questionnaires, such as emPHasis-10. https://bit.ly/3s5jF3U
Footnotes
This article has been revised according to the correction published in the March 2021 issue of the European Respiratory Journal.
Conflict of interest: S. Ulrich reports grants from Swiss National Science Foundation, Zurich Lung and Orpha Swiss, personal fees from MSD Switzerland and Actelion SA, grants and personal fees from Janssen SA Switzerland, outside the submitted work.
Conflict of interest: E. Grunig reports personal fees from MSD and Actelion SA, grants and personal fees from Janssen SA, outside the submitted work.
- Received December 3, 2020.
- Accepted December 18, 2020.
- ©The authors 2021. For reproduction rights and permissions contact permissions{at}ersnet.org
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