National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Health-related Quality of Life

Synonyms

health-related quality of life (HRQoL)

Health-related Quality of Life

Definitions

A patient's perception of the effect of illness and treatment on their physical and mental health.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C142570

ALT_DEFINITION

A multi-domain concept that represents the patient's general perception of the effect of illness and treatment on physical, psychological, and social aspects of life. NOTE: Claiming a statistical and meaningful improvement in HRQoL implies: (1) that all HRQoL domains that are important to interpreting change in how the clinical trial's population feels or functions as a result of the targeted disease and its treatment were measured; (2) that a general improvement was demonstrated; and (3) that no decrement was demonstrated in any domain. [FDA Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Glossary] Compare to quality of life (QoL).

code

C142570

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C67497

Contributing_Source

CDISC-GLOSS

DEFINITION

A patient's perception of the effect of illness and treatment on their physical and mental health.

FULL_SYN

health-related quality of life (HRQoL)

Health-related Quality of Life

label

Health-related Quality of Life

Preferred_Name

Health-related Quality of Life

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C142570

Semantic_Type

Conceptual Entity

UMLS_CUI

C4279947

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C17047

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