"Quality of Life" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral, social environment as well as health and disease.
| Descriptor ID |
D011788
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.800 K01.752.400.750 N06.850.505.400.425.837
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Quality of Life" by people in this website by year, and whether "Quality of Life" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2004 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2007 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2014 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2016 | 9 | 7 | 16 |
| 2017 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2018 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2019 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9 | 20 |
| 2022 | 4 | 18 | 22 |
| 2023 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2025 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quality of Life" by people in Profiles.
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Structured Personalized Oxygen and Supportive Therapies for Dyspnea in Oncology (SPOT-ON): A personalized randomized clinical trial protocol. PLoS One. 2025; 20(12):e0336691.
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Work Impairment and Financial Outcomes Among Adults With vs Without Long COVID. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Aug 01; 8(8):e2526310.
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Racial Disparities in Parkinson Disease Clinical Phenotype, Management, and Genetics: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Apr 07; 14:e60587.
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Discordance between patient- and physician-reported disease activity in adult idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2023 Dec 01; 62(12):3957-3961.
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SARS-CoV-2-Specific Immune Responses in Patients With Postviral Syndrome After Suspected COVID-19. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2023 11; 10(6).
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Preference for and impact of telehealth vs in-person asthma visits among Black and Latinx adults. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2023 11; 131(5):614-627.e2.
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Children's Oncology Group 2023 blueprint for research: Adolescent and young adult oncology. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 09; 70 Suppl 6:e30564.
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Are We Restoring Thyroid Hormone Signaling in Levothyroxine-Treated Patients With Residual Symptoms of Hypothyroidism? Endocr Pract. 2023 Jul; 29(7):581-588.
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Virtual Group Music Therapy for Apathy in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2024 Jan; 37(1):49-60.
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Neurologic Manifestations of Long COVID Differ Based on Acute COVID-19 Severity. Ann Neurol. 2023 07; 94(1):146-159.