Health Related Quality of Life of Chronic Liver Patients: A Dutch Population-Based Study

__Abstract__ Chronic illnesses form a spectrum of diseases. Some chronic illnesses are poorly understood and unpredictable, some are understood and manageable, some are progressively disabling and some are life threatening. Nevertheless, for all chronic patients chronic illnesses have one thing in common: The patient will never again return to the pre-illness state of invulnerability of obliviousness to the body’s functioning. In chronic patients, symptoms may interfere to varying degrees with the ability to work, to carry out family and social roles and to rest 1. It is in this light that a m... Mehr ...