Do not throw out the baby with the bath water: build on current approaches to realize conceptual clarity. Response to Ubel, Peeters, and Smith

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¹ Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. m.a.sprangers@amc.uva.nl

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Mirjam A G Sprangers et al. Qual Life Res. 2010 May.

. 2010 May;19(4):477-9.

doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9611-y. Epub 2010 Mar 25.

¹ Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. m.a.sprangers@amc.uva.nl

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Why should changing the bathwater have to harm the baby?
Ubel PA, Smith DM. Ubel PA, et al. Qual Life Res. 2010 May;19(4):481-2. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9613-9. Epub 2010 Mar 25. Qual Life Res. 2010. PMID: 20336489 No abstract available.
Why we need response shift: an appeal to functionalism.
Eton DT. Eton DT. Qual Life Res. 2010 Aug;19(6):929-30. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9684-7. Qual Life Res. 2010. PMID: 20526685 No abstract available.

Abandoning the language of "response shift": a plea for conceptual clarity in distinguishing scale recalibration from true changes in quality of life.
Ubel PA, Peeters Y, Smith D. Ubel PA, et al. Qual Life Res. 2010 May;19(4):465-71. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9592-x. Epub 2010 Jan 29. Qual Life Res. 2010. PMID: 20112000

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