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The clinical significance of quality of life changes has little to do with the QOL as a measure, but is rather a reflection on the novelty of the measures and researcher's inexperience in their use. This article discusses possible ways of evaluating quality of life measures in terms of patient-clinician interactions and how the clinician can assess the importance of these changes of QOL in terms of treatment and management of disease.

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Lydick, E., Epstein, R.S. Interpretation of quality of life changes.Qual Life Res 2, 221–226 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00435226

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• Received: 07 May 1993
• Accepted: 02 June 1993
• Issue Date: June 1993
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00435226

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