skip to main skip to sidebar GeriPal Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog Your source for Geriatrics Palliative Care News and Collaboration Home About Links Tweets Videos Wednesday , June 2, 2010 Health Status Does Not Equal Quality of LIfe If you asked clinical researchers to describe the most important advances in research methodology over the past generation , many would cite advances in the ability to measure health-related quality of life HRQOL Health-related quality of life refers to domains of health that are important to patient's quality of life . By way of example , in a patient with COPD , this could include an instrument to measure dyspnea , or the extent to which COPD symptoms interfere with day to day function . There are many health related quality of life tools that are used