APPROACH TO QUALITY-OF-LIFE IN CHRONIC RE SPIRATORY PATIENT

Due to the fact that the treatment in Chronic Respiratory patients is almost completely palliative, it is important to find some kind of sca le which can yield precise information on the limitations which the su bject has to face on his/her day-to-day life. Respiratory function tes ts and Dyspnea Scales are not appropriately enough systems for such pu rpose, therefore during the last few years several CV tests have been applied, general or specific, standardized or not. The method which cu rrently seems more useful is CRQ, even tough SGRQ seems to be the more promising, due to the fact that it has been fully standardized and al lows interindividual as well as and in interpopulation comparations.