Paediatric patients report lower health-related quality of life in daily clinical practice compared to new normative PedsQLTM data.

Paediatric patients reported lower HRQOL than the general population, and school absence, female gender and younger age were associated with lower HRQOL. The results underline the importance to structurally monitor paediatric patients' HRQOL in clinical practice to detect problems and offer the right help on time.