When faced with health problems, vulnerabilities or illness, we hope to have recourse to quality healthcare. Quality of care is measured and mapped on the basis of quality indicators that are structure-, process- and outcome-oriented. The development of indicators is primarily based on evidence of disease and treatment and on care delivery frameworks and contexts. For a number of years there has also been a focus on indicators on broader health outcomes and on needs and requirements of patients, significant others and caregivers. Indeed, research on the perspective and experience of patients, significant others and caregivers teaches that care that meets their real needs and wants and their perceived and intended quality of life increases the effectiveness of health care. This funding is committed to research that focuses on integrating those perspectives into quality indicators and in building quality care in various domains and areas of health care.