The patient's or society's: whose quality of life is it anyway?

Affiliations

¹ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
² Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Department of Medicine and Sleep Disorders Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Editorial

Logan Trenaman et al. Sleep. 2014.

. 2014 Dec 1;37(12):1885-6.

doi: 10.5665/sleep.4234.

¹ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
² Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Department of Medicine and Sleep Disorders Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Comment on

Quality-adjusted life-years gain and health status in patients with OSAS after one year of continuous positive airway pressure use.
Rizzi CF, Ferraz MB, Poyares D, Tufik S. Rizzi CF, et al. Sleep. 2014 Dec 1;37(12):1963-8. doi: 10.5665/sleep.4250. Sleep. 2014. PMID: 25325505 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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