The quality of life improvement model: a means to guide practice.

Guiding primary health care with quality of life (QOL) in mind is essential to the survival of a practice as well as the health care system. The present system's aggressive methods to increase quantity of life must be abandoned in order to focus on QOL. With the advent of managed care systems, with or without national health care reform, the health care focus will be less on high-technology and more on high-quality assessment, prevention, and health promotion. Promoting and following a practice model that advocates QOL and choices for care should be an integral element for guiding primary health care in the present and future. Utilization of the QOL improvement model will allow the clinician to assist varying clients to achieve enhanced QOL.