Abstract
This chapter discusses the different quality of life (QOL) issues in palliative surgery, and also attempts to answer questions about the relationship of QOL and palliative care and QOL assessment. It explores the concepts of outcome, palliative care, and QOL, and the procedure in measuring QOL, examines specific measurement problems in the terminal/palliative situation, and determines if the concept of QOL might enhance care. The chapter concludes that palliation research can profit a lot from the QOL movement. Although there are no ready-made solutions, this signifies the urgency for adopting a scientific and empirical orientation to palliative care research.
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