THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PATIENT, THE QUALITY OF CARE AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE: WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP?

Do patients'reports of their health care experiences reflect the quality of care? Measures of quality of health care interventions are influenced by more general feeling of well-being and quality of life, which in turn depend on a variety of biological, psychological and relational factors. For this reason, many medical studies on patient-centered outcome measures are increasingly recognizing the importance of integrating the views of the patient with those of its proxies.