AI Article Synopsis
- The concept of quality of life has become a key aspect of patient-centered medicine over the past 50 years, allowing clinicians to understand patients' subjective experiences.
- Quality of life is now recognized as a vital patient-reported outcome in the early assessment of drug benefits, particularly under German regulations.
- In the context of treating schizophrenia, the focus on improving quality of life as a goal has only recently gained recognition.
Article Abstract
Consideration of quality of life has developed into an important concept of a patient-oriented medicine in the last 50 years. With it, it should be possible to capture the subjective experience of the patients and describe its different dimensions. Today, the quality of life as a patient-reported endpoint is also an integral part of the early benefit assessment under the German Drug Market Reorganization Act. In the treatment of schizophrenic patients, however, improvement in quality of life as an accepted target criterion has only been established with delay.
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