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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Ausgabe 1/2004

Inhalt (70 Artikel)

Open Access Research

Self-administration and interviewer-administration of the German Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire: instrument development and assessment of validity and reliability in two randomised studies

Milo A Puhan, Michaela Behnke, Martin Frey, Thomas Grueter, Otto Brandli, Alfred Lichtenschopf, Gordon H Guyatt, Holger J Schunemann

Open Access Review

Health-related quality of life outcomes after kidney transplantation

Wolfgang Fiebiger, Christa Mitterbauer, Rainer Oberbauer

Open Access Review

The MacNew Heart Disease health-related quality of life instrument: A summary

Stefan Höfer, Lynette Lim, Gordon Guyatt, Neil Oldridge

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Impact of cancer occurrence on health-related quality of life: A longitudinal pre-post assessment

Stéphanie Boini, Serge Briançon, Francis Guillemin, Pilar Galan, Serge Hercberg

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Health-related quality of life among older adults with arthritis

Kelli L Dominick, Frank M Ahern, Carol H Gold, Debra A Heller

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The validity of the MacNew Quality of Life in heart disease questionnaire

Martin Dempster, Michael Donnelly, Christina O'Loughlin

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The "Palliative Care Quality of Life Instrument (PQLI)" in terminal cancer patients

Kyriaki Mystakidou, Eleni Tsilika, Vassilios Kouloulias, Efi Parpa, Emmanuela Katsouda, John Kouvaris, Lambros Vlahos

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A comparison of the Nottingham Health Profile and Short Form 36 Health Survey in patients with chronic lower limb ischaemia in a longitudinal perspective

Christine Wann-Hansson, Ingalill Rahm Hallberg, Bo Risberg, Rosemarie Klevsgård

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A new instrument to describe indicators of well-being in old-old patients with severe dementia – The Vienna List

Franz Porzsolt, Marina Kojer, Martina Schmidl, Elfriede R Greimel, Jörg Sigle, Joerg Richter, Martin Eisemann

Open Access Review

Needs Assessment for cancer patients and their families

Kuang-Yi Wen, David H Gustafson

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Validation of a general measure of treatment satisfaction, the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM), using a national panel study of chronic disease

Mark J Atkinson, Anusha Sinha, Steven L Hass, Shoshana S Colman, Ritesh N Kumar, Meryl Brod, Clayton R Rowland

Open Access Review

Acromegaly Quality of Life Questionnaire (AcroQoL)

Xavier Badia, Susan M Webb, Luis Prieto, Nuria Lara

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An assessment of quality of sleep and the use of drugs with sedating properties in hospitalized adult patients

Luciana Frighetto, Carlo Marra, Shakeel Bandali, Kerry Wilbur, Terryn Naumann, Peter Jewesson

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Perceived difficulty, importance, and satisfaction with physical function in COPD patients

Jeffrey A Katula, W Jack Rejeski, Katie L Wickley, Michael J Berry

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Do medical house officers value the health of veterans differently from the health of non-veterans?

Michael S Yi, Sara Luckhaupt, Joseph M Mrus, Joel Tsevat

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Usefulness of EQ-5D in Assessing Health Status in Primary Care Patients with Major Depressive Disorder

Christophe Sapin, Bruno Fantino, Marie-Laure Nowicki, Paul Kind

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Women with coronary artery disease report worse health-related quality of life outcomes compared to men

Colleen M Norris, William A Ghali, P Diane Galbraith, Michelle M Graham, Louise A Jensen, Merril L Knudtson

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A new instrument for measuring anticoagulation-related quality of life: development and preliminary validation

Greg Samsa, David B Matchar, Rowena J Dolor, Ingela Wiklund, Ewa Hedner, Gail Wygant, Ole Hauch, Cheryl Beadle Marple, Roger Edwards

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Measuring mental health of the Dutch population: a comparison of the GHQ-12 and the MHI-5

Nancy Hoeymans, Anna A Garssen, Gert P Westert, Peter FM Verhaak

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Testing the performance of the ENRICHD Social Support Instrument in cardiac patients

Joseph Vaglio Jr, Mark Conard, Walker S Poston, James O'Keefe, C Keith Haddock, John House, John A Spertus

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Quality of life of 5–10 year breast cancer survivors diagnosed between age 40 and 49

Deborah Casso, Diana SM Buist, Stephen Taplin

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Quality of life of men treated with brachytherapies for prostate cancer

Elise L Lev, Lucille Sanzero Eller, Glen Gejerman, Patricia Lane, Steven V Owen, Michele White, Njoki Nganga

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Practical methods for dealing with 'not applicable' item responses in the AMC Linear Disability Score project

Rebecca Holman, Cees AW Glas, Robert Lindeboom, Aeilko H Zwinderman, Rob J de Haan

Open Access Editorial

Patients' needs, satisfaction, and health related quality of life: Towards a comprehensive model

Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Marcello Tamburini, David Gray

Open Access Commentary

The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey program: Overview, context, and near-term prospects

Nathaniel Jones III, Stephanie L Jones, Nancy A Miller

Open Access Research

Facilitating post traumatic growth

de Sales Turner, Helen Cox

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Dimensions of oral health related quality of life measured by EQ-5D+ and OHIP-14

David S Brennan, A John Spencer

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The Self-Perception and Relationships Tool (S-PRT): A novel approach to the measurement of subjective health-related quality of life

Mark J Atkinson, Paul M Wishart, Bushra I Wasil, John W Robinson

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Sad, blue, or depressed days, health behaviors and health-related quality of life, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1995–2000

Rosemarie Kobau, Marc A Safran, Matthew M Zack, David G Moriarty, Daniel Chapman

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The ECOS-16 questionnaire for the evaluation of health related quality of life in post-menopausal women with osteoporosis

Xavier Badia, Adolfo Díez-Pérez, Raquel Lahoz, Luis Lizán, Xavier Nogués, Jordi Iborra

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The AMC Linear Disability Score project in a population requiring residential care: psychometric properties

Rebecca Holman, Robert Lindeboom, Marinus Vermeulen, Rob J de Haan

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Construction of a questionnaire measuring outpatients' opinion of quality of hospital consultation departments

Isabelle Gasquet, Sylvie Villeminot, Carla Estaquio, Pierre Durieux, Philippe Ravaud, Bruno Falissard

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Comparison of the NEI-VFQ and OSDI questionnaires in patients with Sjögren's syndrome-related dry eye

Susan Vitale, Linda A Goodman, George F Reed, Janine A Smith

Open Access Review

The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) scale: A methodological review

Klaas Heinemann, Alexander Ruebig, Peter Potthoff, Hermann PG Schneider, Frank Strelow, Lothar AJ Heinemann, Do Minh Thai

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Impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions: Prevalence and associations among persons living with HIV/AIDS in British Columbia

Melanie Rusch, Stephanie Nixon, Arn Schilder, Paula Braitstein, Keith Chan, Robert S Hogg

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Health-related quality of life as a predictor of pediatric healthcare costs: A two-year prospective cohort analysis

Michael Seid, James W Varni, Darron Segall, Paul S Kurtin

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Assessing response bias from missing quality of life data: The Heckman method

Anne E Sales, Mary E Plomondon, David J Magid, John A Spertus, John S Rumsfeld

Open Access Review

Multimorbidity and quality of life in primary care: a systematic review

Martin Fortin, Lise Lapointe, Catherine Hudon, Alain Vanasse, Antoine L Ntetu, Danielle Maltais

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Ability to perform activities of daily living is the main factor affecting quality of life in patients with dementia

Christian K Andersen, Kim U Wittrup-Jensen, Anette Lolk, Kjeld Andersen, Per Kragh-Sørensen

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Identification of rehabilitation needs after a stroke: an exploratory study

Lise R Talbot, Chantal Viscogliosi, Johanne Desrosiers, Claude Vincent, Jacqueline Rousseau, Line Robichaud

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Age related differences in individual quality of life domains in youth with type 1 diabetes

Julie A Wagner, Gina Abbott, Syretta Lett

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The PedsQL™ Family Impact Module: Preliminary reliability and validity

James W Varni, Sandra A Sherman, Tasha M Burwinkle, Paige E Dickinson, Pamela Dixon

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The prevalence and severity of oral impacts on daily performances in Thai primary school children

Sudaduang Gherunpong, Georgios Tsakos, Aubrey Sheiham

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Factors influencing quality of life in patients with active tuberculosis

Carlo A Marra, Fawziah Marra, Victoria C Cox, Anita Palepu, J Mark Fitzgerald

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Predicting gender differences as latent variables: summed scores, and individual item responses: a methods case study

Ricardo Pietrobon, Marcus Taylor, Ulrich Guller, Laurence D Higgins, Danny O Jacobs, Timothy Carey

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Occurrence of symptoms and depressive mood among working-aged coronary heart disease patients

Markku PT Sumanen, Sakari B Suominen, Markku J Koskenvuo, Lauri H Sillanmäki, Kari J Mattila

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The development of a new measure of quality of life for young people with diabetes mellitus: the ADDQoL-Teen

Carolyn V McMillan, Rachel J Honeyford, Jessica Datta, Nicola JH Madge, Clare Bradley

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Psychometric performance of an assessment scale for strain in nursing care: The M-NCAS

Leah Kleinman, Lori Frank, Gabrielle Ciesla, Marcia Rupnow, Henry Brodaty

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Does the 12-item General Health Questionnaire contain multiple factors and do we need them?

Fei Gao, Nan Luo, Julian Thumboo, Calvin Fones, Shu-Chuen Li, Yin-Bun Cheung

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Validity of the AusTOM scales: A comparison of the AusTOMs and EuroQol-5D

Carolyn A Unsworth, Stephen J Duckett, Dianne Duncombe, Alison Perry, Jemma Skeat, Nicholas Taylor

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The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) as outcome measure for hormone treatment? A validation study

Lothar AJ Heinemann, Thai DoMinh, Frank Strelow, Silvia Gerbsch, Jörg Schnitker, Hermann PG Schneider

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Relationship between three palliative care outcome scales

Irene J Higginson, Nora Donaldson