Relating person-centredness to quality-of-life assessments and patient-reported outcomes in healthcare: A critical theoretical discussion.

Randall and Downie have put forward three other common reasons for the popularity of measuring QoL: (1) It serves as a standardized quality mark for comparing different services and treatments; (2) It enables practitioners to provide better care for individual patients by learning about their ‘subjective symptoms’; and (3) At the time when these measures became more and more dispersed, there was a strong trend towards quantifying what is qualitative (Randall & Downie, 2006 ).

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