Quality of Life

"Quality of Life" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral, social environment as well as health and disease.

Descriptor ID	D011788
MeSH Number(s)	I01.800 K01.752.400.750 N06.850.505.400.425.837
Concept/Terms	Quality of Life Quality of Life Life Quality Health-Related Quality Of Life Health-Related Quality Of Life Health Related Quality Of Life HRQOL

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Quality of Life".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Quality of Life [I01.800]
Humanities [K]
Humanities [K01]
Philosophy [K01.752]
Life [K01.752.400]
Quality of Life [K01.752.400.750]
Health Care [N]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Measurements [N06.850.505]
Demography [N06.850.505.400]
Health Status [N06.850.505.400.425]
Quality of Life [N06.850.505.400.425.837]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Quality of Life" by people in this website by year, and whether "Quality of Life" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 928 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 64 publications in 2023

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	3	3
1996	0	4	4
1997	0	3	3
1998	3	0	3
1999	2	3	5
2000	1	6	7
2001	2	5	7
2002	9	10	19
2003	11	11	22
2004	7	11	18
2005	10	9	19
2006	9	11	20
2007	16	11	27
2008	9	22	31
2009	9	19	28
2010	18	11	29
2011	16	19	35
2012	13	21	34
2013	18	12	30
2014	19	38	57
2015	21	24	45
2016	15	30	45
2017	25	34	59
2018	27	25	52
2019	23	20	43
2020	20	32	52
2021	16	34	50
2022	12	49	61
2023	18	46	64
2024	26	21	47
2025	4	5	9

Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality of Life" by people in Profiles.

Sciurba FC, Criner GJ, Christenson SA, Martinez FJ, Papi A, Roche N, Bourbeau J, Korn S, Bafadhel M, Han MK, Kolterer S, Miller K, Mouneimne D, Fletcher J, Mayer B, Min J, Pavord ID. Mepolizumab to Prevent Exacerbations of COPD with an Eosinophilic Phenotype. N Engl J Med. 2025 May 01; 392(17):1710-1720.

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Porteny T, Lynch M, Covaleski A, Tjia J, Gazarian P, Reich AJ, Perez S, Kennefick K, Weissman JS, Ladin K. Medical decision-making experiences of persons with dementia and their carepartners: a qualitative study. BMC Palliat Care. 2025 Apr 09; 24(1):99.

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Ameral V, Sofuoglu M, Kelly MM. Nicotine e-cigarettes for smoking cessation: a clinical pharmacology perspective. Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2025 Apr; 18(4):189-196.

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Voelzke BB, Edwards TC, Vanni AJ, Myers JB, Rourke K, Erickson BA, Broghammer JB, Elliott SP, Buckly JC, Lindekugel G, Breyer BN. Urethral Stricture Symptom and Impact Measure Validation Study. Urology. 2025 May; 199:162-170.

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Charlson ME, Mittleman I, Ramos R, Cassells A, Lin TJ, Eggleston A, Wells MT, Hollenberg J, Pirraglia P, Winston G, Tobin JN. Preventing "tipping points" in high comorbidity patients: A lifeline from health coaches - rationale, design and methods. Contemp Clin Trials. 2025 May; 152:107865.

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Perrot A, Facon T, Plesner T, Usmani SZ, Kumar S, Bahlis NJ, Hulin C, Orlowski RZ, Nahi H, Mollee P, Ramasamy K, Roussel M, Jaccard A, Delforge M, Karlin L, Arnulf B, Chari A, Wang G, Gupta-Werner N, Kaila S, Pei H, Matt K, Gries KS, Carson R, Borgsten F, Weisel K. Sustained Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life in Transplant-Ineligible Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Treated With Daratumumab, Lenalidomide, and Dexamethasone: MAIA Final Analysis of Patient-Reported Outcomes. Eur J Haematol. 2025 May; 114(5):883-889.

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Norweg A, Oh C, DiMango A, Hofferber B, Spinner M, Stavrolakes K, Pavol M, Lindenauer P, Murphy CG, Simon NM. Mind the Breath: Feasibility of Capnography-Assisted Learned Monitored (CALM) Breathing for Dyspnea Treatment. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev. 2025 Mar 01; 45(2):118-131.

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Ware JE. Improved Items for Estimating SF-36 Profile and Summary Component Scores: Construction and Validation of an 8-Item QOL General (QGEN) Survey. Med Care. 2025 Apr 01; 63(4):300-310.

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Leitzelar BN, Crawford SL, Levine B, Ylitalo KR, Colvin AB, Gabriel KP, Greendale GA, Avis NE. Physical activity and quality of life among breast cancer survivors: Pink SWAN. Support Care Cancer. 2025 Jan 16; 33(2):101.

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Ginggeaw S, LeBlanc R, Chung J. Social Determinants of Quality of Life in the Last Year of Life Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Multimorbidity. Clin Nurs Res. 2025 Feb; 34(2):107-119.

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