When you leave a job, there is always unfinished business, stuff that could have gone better etc.
Therefore, I am glad to see that "Quality of Life Research" has passed 2,000 submissions this week, which makes 2024 (so far) the year with the second most submissions (after 2020) in the history of the journal.
Thanks to authors and reviewers supporting us! 
#ISOQOL #HRQL #HealthEconomics
Earlier news post on paper awards and usage:
https://mastodon.social/deck/@jrboehnke/113629324934342255
MastodonJan R. Boehnke (@jrboehnke@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image
Read about the editors' choice papers, most downloaded, and interacted paper in "Quality of Life Research":
https://www.isoqol.org/news-from-quality-of-life-research-112024/
The last annual update I will be involved in... 😅👋
#ISOQOL #HRQL #HealthEconomics #Psychometrics
#EQ5D #COSMIN #PROMIS
![Patient-reported measurement is the idea that patient perspectives should play an evidentiary role in determining how effective a drug is taken to be, the degree to which a hospital provides good quality care or improvements in patient-clinician communication. This idea may sound prosaic, but in fact it’s nothing short of revolutionary. It says, patient views matter – not as an afterthought, and not only at the bedside, but in the nuts and bolts of creating our evidence base, and thus in health-care decision-making. But patient-reported measures present a puzzle: How can measurement, which relies on standardization, represent patient perspectives, which, if not idiosyncratic are at least various and changeable? [redacted for length, sorry!]
Melanie Hawkins, PhD, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Sebastian Rodriguez Duque, PhD Candidate, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jan R. Boehnke, PhD, School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
Alessandra Basso, PhD, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Richard Sawatzky, PhD RN, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Leah McClimans, PhD, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Kevin Weinfurt, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Rebecca L. Jackson, PhD, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/344/966/136/588/896/original/24d8b80e1f1d7d91.png "Patient-reported measurement is the idea that patient perspectives should play an evidentiary role in determining how effective a drug is taken to be, the degree to which a hospital provides good quality care or improvements in patient-clinician communication. This idea may sound prosaic, but in fact it’s nothing short of revolutionary. It says, patient views matter – not as an afterthought, and not only at the bedside, but in the nuts and bolts of creating our evidence base, and thus in health-care decision-making. But patient-reported measures present a puzzle: How can measurement, which relies on standardization, represent patient perspectives, which, if not idiosyncratic are at least various and changeable? [redacted for length, sorry!]
Melanie Hawkins, PhD, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Sebastian Rodriguez Duque, PhD Candidate, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jan R. Boehnke, PhD, School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
Alessandra Basso, PhD, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Richard Sawatzky, PhD RN, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Leah McClimans, PhD, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Kevin Weinfurt, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Rebecca L. Jackson, PhD, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom")
![Tarmac path with a red line on it. Below the line it is stencil sprayed in white (all CAPS):
"Ab hier sinkt Deine Lebenserwartung um 6 Jahre."
[engl. "From here on your life expectancy lowers by six years."]
This is on the foot and cycle path of the massive rail bridge in Cologne, on the left you can see some fencing and below it the river Rhine, and to the right the (potentially famous?) padlocks put up by people as a memento to their relatiionships.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/295/035/682/251/242/original/4665bfbb852016e8.jpg "Tarmac path with a red line on it. Below the line it is stencil sprayed in white (all CAPS):
\"Ab hier sinkt Deine Lebenserwartung um 6 Jahre.\"
[engl. \"From here on your life expectancy lowers by six years.\"]
This is on the foot and cycle path of the massive rail bridge in Cologne, on the left you can see some fencing and below it the river Rhine, and to the right the (potentially famous?) padlocks put up by people as a memento to their relatiionships.")
