We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Quality of life: a dimension in multiaxial classification.
- Authors
Kastrup, Marianne; Mezzich, Juan E.
- Abstract
The study provides an overview of the historical aspects of multiaxial classification. Particular reference is paid to the multiaxial formats of ICD-10, DSM-IV and the WPA International Guidelines for Diagnostic Assessment (IGDA). The IGDA proposes a tetraaxial format with quality of life as one axis as well as an axis on symptomatology, an axis on adaptive functioning and an axis on environmental/psychosocial conditions. The axis on quality of life is added in recognition of the increasing importance placed upon the patient's perception of his/her capacity of self fulfillment and the attention paid to quality of life as a major descriptor of health status as well as an outcome measure of clinical care.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life; MEDICAL care
- Publication
European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, 2001, Vol 251, pII32
- ISSN
0940-1334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF03035124