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sickness impact profile  

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  • A range of research instruments for measuring health related quality of life. They combine objective measures of clinical status with subjective evaluations of well being, based on extensive open-ended questioning of patients, professionals and care givers (health status assessment; Karnofsky's performance status scale).. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)]

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