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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Ausgabe 1/2005

Inhalt (83 Artikel)

Open Access Research

Can the concepts of depression and quality of life be integrated using a time perspective?

Margaret Moore, Stefan Höfer, Hannah McGee, Lena Ring

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The influence of demographic factors and health-related quality of life on treatment satisfaction in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease treated with esomeprazole

Alessio Degl' Innocenti, Gordon H Guyatt, Ingela Wiklund, Diane Heels-Ansdell, David Armstrong, Carlo A Fallone, Lisa Tanser, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Samer El-Dika, Naoki Chiba, Alan N Barkun, Peggy Austin, Holger J Schünemann

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Simultaneous development of the Pediatric GERD Caregiver Impact Questionnaire (PGCIQ) in American English and American Spanish

Jennifer Kim, Dorothy L Keininger, Sara Becker, Joseph A Crawley

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Effect of method of administration on longitudinal assessment of quality of life in gynecologic cancer: An exploratory study

Karen M Gil, Heidi E Frasure, Michael P Hopkins, Eric L Jenison, Vivian E von Gruenigen

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Responsiveness: a reinvention of the wheel?

Robert Lindeboom, Mirjam A Sprangers, Aeilko H Zwinderman

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Validation of the Clinical COPD questionnaire in Italian language

Salvatore Damato, Chiara Bonatti, Vinicio Frigo, Silvana Pappagallo, Rita Raccanelli, Claudio Rampoldi, Francesco Rodi

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Role of religion and spirituality in medical patients: Confirmatory results with the SpREUK questionnaire

Arndt Büssing, Thomas Ostermann, Peter F Matthiessen

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Are decisions using cost-utility analyses robust to choice of SF-36/SF-12 preference-based algorithm?

A Simon Pickard, Zhixiao Wang, Surrey M Walton, Todd A Lee

Open Access Review

Patient-Reported Outcome and Quality of Life Instruments Database (PROQOLID): Frequently asked questions

Marie-Pierre Emery, Laure-Lou Perrier, Catherine Acquadro

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Estimating a preference-based index for a menopause specific health quality of life questionnaire

John E Brazier, Jennifer Roberts, Maria Platts, York F Zoellner

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Subjective impact of osteoarthritis flare-ups on patients' quality of life

Giuseppina Majani, Anna Giardini, Aurelio Scotti

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Health-state valuations for pertussis: methods for valuing short-term health states

Grace M Lee, Joshua A Salomon, Charles W LeBaron, Tracy A Lieu

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Values for preventing influenza-related morbidity and vaccine adverse events in children

Lisa A Prosser, Carolyn Buxton Bridges, Timothy M Uyeki, Virginia H Rêgo, G Thomas Ray, Martin I Meltzer, Benjamin Schwartz, William W Thompson, Keiji Fukuda, Tracy A Lieu

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The French Aging Males' Symptoms (AMS) scale: Methodological review

Eric Myon, Nicolas Martin, Charles Taïeb

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The measurement of response shift in patients with advanced prostate cancer and their partners

Jonathan Rees, Michael G Clarke, Dympna Waldron, Ciaran O'Boyle, Paul Ewings, Ruaraidh P MacDonagh

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Measurement properties of the UK-English version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales

Penney Upton, Christine Eiser, Ivy Cheung, Hayley A Hutchings, Meriel Jenney, Alison Maddocks, Ian T Russell, John G Williams

Open Access Review

Assessing sensitivity to change: choosing the appropriate change coefficient

Paul W Stratford, Daniel L Riddle

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Combination of qualitative and quantitative methods for developing a new Health Related Quality of Life measure for patients with anogenital warts

Xavier Badia, Jose Antonio Colombo, Nuria Lara, M Angels Llorens, Luis Olmos, Miguel Sainz de los Terreros, Jose Antonio Varela, Juan Jose Vilata

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+Psychometric evaluation of the MacDQoL individualised measure of the impact of macular degeneration on quality of life

Jan Mitchell, James S Wolffsohn, Alison Woodcock, Stephen J Anderson, Carolyn V McMillan, Timothy ffytche, Martin Rubinstein, Winfried Amoaku, Clare Bradley

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Development and validation of the Chinese Quality of Life Instrument

Kwok-fai Leung, Feng-bin Liu, Li Zhao, Ji-qian Fang, Kelvin Chan, Li-zhu Lin

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Prevalence and burden of self-reported blindness and low vision for individuals living in institutions: a nationwide survey

Antoine Pierre Brézin, Antoine Lafuma, Francis Fagnani, Mounir Mesbah, Gilles Berdeaux

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Quality of life in children newly diagnosed with cancer and their mothers

Christine Eiser, J Richard Eiser, Christopher B Stride

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Coping, quality of life, and hope in adults with primary antibody deficiencies

Hanne Marie Høybråten Sigstad, Asbjørg Stray-Pedersen, Stig S Frøland

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The two-year impact of first generation protease inhibitor based antiretroviral therapy (PI-ART) on health-related quality of life

Lars E Eriksson, Göran A Bratt, Eric Sandström, Gun Nordström

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Internal consistency reliability is a poor predictor of responsiveness

Milo A Puhan, Dianne Bryant, Gordon H Guyatt, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Holger J Schünemann

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Effects of a self-care program on quality of life of cirrhotic patients referring to Tehran Hepatitis Center

Mitra Zandi, Mohsen Adib-Hajbagheri, Robabeh Memarian, Anooshiravan Kazem Nejhad, Seyed Moayed Alavian

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Order effects: a randomised study of three major cancer-specific quality of life instruments

Yin-Bun Cheung, Celestine Lim, Cynthia Goh, Julian Thumboo, Joseph Wee

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Cancer history and other personal factors affect quality of life in patients with hepatitis C

Sara H Olson, Sandy Iyer, Jennifer Scott, Orry Erez, Shelby Samuel, Temima Markovits, Myron Schwartz, Charlene Toro, Maya Gambarin-Gelwan, Robert C Kurtz

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An investigation into the psychometric properties of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in patients with breast cancer

Jacqui Rodgers, Colin R Martin, Rachel C Morse, Kate Kendell, Mark Verrill

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Injection Drug Use Quality of Life scale (IDUQOL): A validation study

Anita M Hubley, Lara B Russell, Anita Palepu

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Women's quality of life is decreased by acute cystitis and antibiotic adverse effects associated with treatment

Erika J Ernst, Michael E Ernst, James D Hoehns, George R Bergus

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Health-related quality of life and physical well-being among a 63-year-old cohort of women with androgenetic alopecia; a Finnish population-based study

Päivi Hirsso, Ulla Rajala, Mauri Laakso, Liisa Hiltunen, Pirjo Härkönen, Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi

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Health related quality of life in sickle cell patients: The PiSCES project

Donna K McClish, Lynne T Penberthy, Viktor E Bovbjerg, John D Roberts, Imoigele P Aisiku, James L Levenson, Susan D Roseff, Wally R Smith

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Development and validation of a psychosocial screening instrument for cancer

Wolfgang Linden, Dahyun Yi, Maria Cristina Barroetavena, Regina MacKenzie, Richard Doll

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Health-related quality of life is related to COPD disease severity

Elisabeth Ståhl, Anne Lindberg, Sven-Arne Jansson, Eva Rönmark, Klas Svensson, Fredrik Andersson, Claes-Göran Löfdahl, Bo Lundbäck

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Modification of the asthma quality of life questionnaire (standardised) for patients 12 years and older

Elizabeth F Juniper, Klas Svensson, Ann-Christin Mörk, Elisabeth Ståhl

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The effect of patient characteristics on variability in pain and function over two years in early knee osteoarthritis

Przemyslaw T Paradowski, Martin Englund, L Stefan Lohmander, Ewa M Roos

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Patients' perspectives on how idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis affects the quality of their lives

Jeffrey J Swigris, Anita L Stewart, Michael K Gould, Sandra R Wilson

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Adolescent distinctions between quality of life and self-rated health in quality of life research

Keith J Zullig, Robert F Valois, J Wanzer Drane

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Psychometric properties of the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25), Japanese version

Yoshimi Suzukamo, Tetsuro Oshika, Mitsuko Yuzawa, Yoshihiro Tokuda, Atsuo Tomidokoro, Kotaro Oki, Carol M Mangione, Joseph Green, Shunichi Fukuhara

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The Oxford hip score: the patient's perspective

Vikki Wylde, Ian D Learmonth, Victoria J Cavendish

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The reliability, validity, and preliminary responsiveness of the Eye Allergy Patient Impact Questionnaire (EAPIQ)

Michael Alexander, William Berger, Patricia Buchholz, John Walt, Caroline Burk, Jeff Lee, Rob Arbuckle, Linda Abetz

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Evaluating change in health-related quality of life in adult rhinitis: Responsiveness of the Rhinosinusitis Disability Index

Hubert Chen, Patricia P Katz, Stephen Shiboski, Paul D Blanc

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Cross-cultural validation and analysis of responsiveness of the QUALIOST®: QUAlity of Life questionnaire In OSTeoporosis

Christine de la Loge, Kate Sullivan, Robert Pinkney, Patrick Marquis, Christian Roux, Pierre Jean Meunier

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The European DISABKIDS project: development of seven condition-specific modules to measure health related quality of life in children and adolescents

Rolanda M Baars, Clare I Atherton, Hendrik M Koopman, Monika Bullinger, Mick Power

Open Access Review

Quality of life in bipolar disorder: A review of the literature

Erin E Michalak, Lakshmi N Yatham, Raymond W Lam

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Comparative assessment of three different indices of multimorbidity for studies on health-related quality of life

Martin Fortin, Catherine Hudon, Marie-France Dubois, José Almirall, Lise Lapointe, Hassan Soubhi

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Do proxies reflect patients' health concerns about urinary incontinence and gait problems?

Takahiro Higashi, Ron D Hays, Julie A Brown, Caren J Kamberg, Chau Pham, David B Reuben, Paul G Shekelle, David H Solomon, Roy T Young, Carol P Roth, John T Chang, Catherine H MacLean, Neil S Wenger

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A review of the psychometric properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measures

Jane E Pirkis, Philip M Burgess, Pia K Kirk, Sarity Dodson, Tim J Coombs, Michelle K Williamson

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Health-related quality of life in urban surgical emergency department patients: Comparison with a representative German population sample

Bruno Neuner, Peter M Miller, Bodo Felsmann, Edith Weiss-Gerlach, Tim Neumann, Klaus Dieter Wernecke, Claudia Spies

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Quality of life in post-menopausal osteoporosis

Maria Luisa Bianchi, Maria Rosa Orsini, Silvia Saraifoger, Sergio Ortolani, Giovanni Radaelli, Simonetta Betti

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The reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Restless Legs Syndrome Quality of Life questionnaire (RLSQoL) in a trial population

Linda Abetz, Robert Arbuckle, Richard P Allen, Elena Mavraki, Jeffrey Kirsch

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Effects of psycho-educational intervention on health-related quality of life (QOL) of patients with chronic liver disease referring to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Farkhondeh Sharif, Sadrollah Mohebbi, Hamid-Reza Tabatabaee, Mehdi Saberi-Firoozi, Sakineh Gholamzadeh

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The Academic Medical Center Linear Disability Score (ALDS) item bank: item response theory analysis in a mixed patient population

Rebecca Holman, Nadine Weisscher, Cees AW Glas, Marcel GW Dijkgraaf, Marinus Vermeulen, Rob J de Haan, Robert Lindeboom