Quality of Life Research

Patients' rights, quality of life, and health care system performance

Ivan Barofsky

Item banking to improve, shorten and computerize self-reported fatigue: An illustration of steps to create a core item bank from the FACIT-Fatigue Scale

Jin-shei Lai, David Cella, Chih-Hung Chang, Rita K. Bode, Allen W. Heinemann

Survival-weighted health profile for long-term survivors of acute myelogenous leukemia

Chiun Hsu, Jung-Der Wang, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Hwei-Fang Tien, Shueh-Mei Chang, Ann-Lii Cheng, Yao-Chang Chen, Jih-Luh Tang

Using standardised measures of health-related quality of life: Critical issues for users and developers

Rejoinder

Chiun Hsu, Jung-Der Wang, Grace Yao, Jih-Luh Tang

Factors influencing quality of life in breast cancer survivors

Pamela M. Vacek, Patricia Winstead-Fry, Roger H. Secker-Walker, Gloria J. Hooper, Dennis A. Plante

The association between mental distress and the use of alternative medicine among cancer patients in North Norway

T. Risberg, B.K. Jacobsen

Individual quality of life in long-term survivors of Hodgkin's lymphoma – a comparative study

L. Wettergren, M. Björkholm, U. Axdorph, A. Bowling, A. Langius-Eklöf

A comparison of the responsiveness of different generic health status measures in patients with asthma

Toru Oga, Koichi Nishimura, Mitsuhiro Tsukino, Susumu Sato, Takashi Hajiro, Michiaki Mishima

Patients' health-related quality-of-life and health state values for motor neurone disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

C. Green, G. Kiebert, C. Murphy, J.D. Mitchell, M. O'Brien, A. Burrell, P.N. Leigh

Relationships between self-reported health related quality of life and measures of standardized exercise capacity and metabolic efficiency in a middle-aged and aged healthy population

E. Lindholm, H. Brevinge, C.-H. Bergh, U. Körner, K. Lundholm

The SIP68: An abbreviated sickness impact profile for disability outcomes research

Upasana Nanda, Patricia M. McLendon, Elena M. Andresen, Eric Armbrecht

Lies we live by: The art of self-deception