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From: Perceptions regarding the concept and definition of patient-reported outcomes among healthcare stakeholders in Japan with relation to quality of life: a cross-sectional study

Which words as below can be used to describe the abbreviation QOL?

Quality of life (in daily life), quality of patients’ life, life being quality, live by one’s values, life worth living

Which words as below can be used to describe the abbreviation PRO?

Patients’ information that cannot be grasped through outpatient care,

Information that patients do not mention or reluctant to say,

Communication tool between patient and medical professionals,

Communication from patient to medical professionals (verbalization)

What inspired you to learn about PRO and QOL?

In class or training, at work, through books, news and other media

  1. PRO: patient-reported outcome; QOL: quality-of-life