Patient Safety in the Light of Quality of Life Assessment in End-stage Disease. Quality of Life of Hospice Patients
Patient Safety in the Light of Quality of Life Assessment in End-stage Disease. Quality of Life of Hospice Patients

Summary/Abstract: The definition of quality of life has spread among the population of developed countries, where it was originallyidentified with the amount of material goods, economic resources, consumption or wealth status. Nowadays, quality of lifeis viewed more broadly and material goods are not the most important determinant and quality of life is related to the overall wellbeingof the individual. Quality assessment can involve many aspects of life including especially the aspect of medical care. Qualityof life can also be viewed in terms of patient safety. A particular field of medicine focusing on quality of life is palliative medicine.A new field of medicine such as palliative medicine focuses on patients in whom the disease process cannot be reversed but clearlytheir quality of life can be improved in the end-stage of the disease thereby ensuring their safety.1 The article discusses the problemof assessing quality of life in palliative patients in the light of the introduced provisions of the Quality Act of 2023 in Poland.

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