Improving the hospital or immunizing its organization? Patient and public involvement at the service of quality.

Introduction: There is a pressing need for the hospitals to improve their quality and become more patient-centered. Over the last decade, several approaches were implemented to meet this demand, such as hospital accreditation or patient surveys. Many studies have addressed the patient involvement systems from the viewpoint of the factors that drive them or the achieved performance.

Content validity of SarQoL, a quality of life questionnaire specific to sarcopenia.

Background: The Sarcopenia & Quality of Life (SarQoL) questionnaire is a patient-reported outcome measure designed for assessing health-related quality of life in individuals with sarcopenia. Despite its wide acceptance in the scientific literature, its content validity has only been partially demonstrated so far.

Aims: To enhance the evidence supporting the content validity of the SarQoL questionnaire.

The use of patient-reported outcome measures by healthcare professionals in specialized asthma management centers in French-speaking Belgium: A mixed-methods study.

Introduction: Recently, the literature has promoted the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical practice as a means to foster patient engagement. However, conditions necessary to support the use of PROMs to encourage asthma patient engagement are not clearly defined. Therefore, we sought (1) to explore the current and ideal use of PROMs by healthcare professionals (HP) in specialized asthma management centers in French-speaking Belgium and (2) to understand under which conditions the use of PROMs contributes to patient engagement.

[Quality of life in the medical field : a brief overview of its origin, semantics, measuring instruments and clinical use].

Since the early 1970s, the concept of quality of life has been the subject of increasing interest in the medical field, although no scientific consensus has emerged on how to define and measure it. The aim of this narrative review of the literature is to decrypt the notion of quality of life in the medical field, in order to enable clinicians-researchers and clinicians who use quality of life measurement instruments in clinical practice to form an informed and nuanced opinion on the issue. To do so, the paper is divided into three parts.