... the analysis and interpretation of the data and finalizing the manuscript All authors read and gave approval of the final manuscript 12 13 14 15 16 Guyatt GH, Feeny DH, Patrich DL: Measuring health-related ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:14 [1,2] Although traditional clinical and biological indicators are often intrinsically related to patients' quality of life, they fail to represent ... HRQL has become an area of increasing interest and has been evaluated in many diseases, including tuberculosis (TB) To measure HRQL, two kinds of instruments are often used: generic and diseasespecific...