The interpretation of satisfaction according to socio-demographic characteristics must remain cautious, other unstudied factors could explain the difference in HV satisfaction.
The available evidence indicates that health status can affect satisfaction, and therefore suggests that accurate interpretations of comparative satisfaction data requires consideration of the illness profile of the population samples involved [ 40].
It is still possible however that the findings represent a cultural difference in the interpretation of 'career satisfaction.
For the interpretation of the satisfaction scores, we considered the minimal difference defined as clinically meaningful by Osoba et al., namely a mean change of at least 5 points [ 26].
These individual differences may even enter into the meaning and interpretation of items: "satisfaction with role functioning" means something very different for people who want or expect to return to work versus people who want or expect to scale back.
We now define a relation of satisfaction between interpretations, variable-assignments, and formulas of L1K=.
The interpretation (i.e. ratings of satisfaction) of clinical encounters varies with such factors as age and health status indicating that age is an important factor in determining satisfaction, with older adults being more satisfied [ 16, 17].
These opposing views of patient satisfaction illustrate conflicting interpretations of the principles used in prioritising.
Previous studies of heart patients where the Wilson and Cleary model has been evaluated as a conceptual framework, present different interpretations of overall QoL: either as life satisfaction similar to the present study [ 6], or by referring to health-related QoL (HQoL) [ 28], or disease-specific health-related QoL [ 7].
The model-theoretic interpretation of the language of quantificational logic relied on the Tarskian definition of satisfaction in a model by an assignment of values to the variables.
