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Quality of End-of-life care and Satisfaction with Treatment scale (QUEST)

[ The QUEST is in the public domain.

The original bibiliographic reference describes the validation of the instrument and includes the English language version:
Sulmasy DP, McIlvane JM, Pasley PM, Rahn M. A scale for measuring patient perceptions of the quality of end-of-life care and satisfaction with treatment: the reliability and validity of QUEST. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2002 Jun;23(6):458-70 ]

	Author(s)
McIlvane JM Sulmasy DP

Purpose

Pathology:

Generic

Disease:

All

Objective:

To measure patients' perceptions of quality of care and satisfaction with their physicians and nurses

Population:

Terminal patients

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Quality of end of life
Satisfaction

Mode of administration:

Proxy-rated
Self-administered

[ Proxy = surrogate ]

Number of items:

Existence of database:

Time recall:

The past two days

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the USA

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

Spanish

Last update: February 2007
Last update in collaboration with the author: October 2004

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