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December 2005 (British Medical Association)
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Functional limitation in long standing illness and quality of life: evidence from a national survey
Type: Journal Articles
Authors: Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Richard D. Wiggins, Zoe Hildon, Scott M. Montgomery and David Blane
Volume, issue, pages: Vol. 331, pp. 1382-1383

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Quality of life is the most desired patient centred outcome of medical care. In older patients with long term illness, with no possible cure, it might be the only outcome achievable. Most clinicians are aware of the importance for quality of life of functional limitation, but lack an estimate of the size of its impact compared with long term illness in itself. We aimed to fill this gap in knowledge, using new data from a large national sample of older people in England.

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