audit outcomes and quality of life in palliative care

... associations of diversity of productive activities, mental health and quality of life for men and women, mean (SD)Mental health Quality of life Mental health Quality of life Not engaged in diverse ... health and quality of life in disability: exploring the role enhancement and the role strain hypotheses Christine Fekete1,2* , Johannes Siegrist3, Marcel W M Post4,5, Martin W G Brinkhof1,2and for ... work in combination with any kind of un-paid activity was linked to enhanced mental health and QoL The combination of different role engagements and its link to mental health and QoL was inconsistent

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 14:14

... Alain Monnier2, Jean-François Bosset1 and Mariette Mercier3,5 Abstract Background: In the oncology setting, there has been increasing interest in evaluating treatment outcomes in terms of quality ... quality of life and patient satisfaction The aim of our study was to investigate the determinants of patient satisfaction, especially the relationship between quality of life and satisfaction with care ... changes: i.e between the beginning and the end of treatment on the one hand, and between the beginning of treatment and three months after the end of treatment on the other hand Significant categorical

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 02:04

... bleeding into joints (hemarthrosis) is common in individuals with hemophilia, and may cause pain and arthropa-thy.1,2 Evaluating the impact of pain on people with hemophilia is of growing interest, ... Impact of hemophilia B on quality of life in affected men, women, and caregivers—Assessment of patient- reported outcomes in the B- HERO- S study 1 University of Colorado School of Medicine, ... pain that interfered with their daily life in the past 4 weeks.3 Results from the Pain, Functional Impairment, and Quality of Life (P- FiQ) study, which assessed the impact of pain in 381 individuals

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2018, 10:33

... target were included in the multivariate ana-lyses Missing data was handled by calculating the indi-vidual’s mean of the non-missing values in the instrument and then replacing the missing values ... assignments in a real-life context This could include identifying and engaging in meaning-ful occupations and relationships, setting personal goals related to diet and nutrition, and working with one’s ... AccessPredictors of clinically important improvements in occupational and quality of life outcomes among mental health service users after completion and follow-up of a lifestyle intervention:

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 13:16

... Health-related quality of life, Palliative Care Outcome Scale, Symptom burden, Quality of life, Palliative care * Correspondence: christina.ramsenthaler@kcl.ac.uk 1 Department of Palliative Care, Policy and ... scores on functioning subscales and the global quality of life scale indicate better functioning/better quality of life c EORTC-QLQ-MY20: For the myeloma module of the EORTC quality of life questionnaire ... main outcomes of the study, quality of life and symptom burden/palliative care concerns, were assessed using two generic and two disease-specific question-naires Choice of patient-reported outcomes

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2020, 01:37

... use and costs of medical and social servicesIncrease burden of care for family and caregivers Trang 5QUALITY OF CARE is now a critical factor that determines whether the current cohort of Singaporean ... Multi-disciplinary collaboration of research aimed at understanding the ageing and health transition of Singaporean older adultspromotion for healthy and long life expectancy primary care, and hospital and ... the way of realizing quality of life Trang 20 Success in improving physical and social functioning and quality of life will be determined by measures taken to improve support and the physical environment

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... participating cities; and, a detailed assessment of the practicality of obtaining information to inform the 33 Terms of Reference ‘indicators’. As a result of this work, the following refinements ... The indicators were regrouped into 21 domains reflecting aspects of urban ‘quality of life’ The grouping offered the practical advantage that because, by and large, the information required to inform ... dwellingsPercentage of households living in housesPercentage of households living in apartmentsPercentage of households living in "other" dwellingsLife expectancy at birth for males and femalesInfant

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... in the UK and US and to a lesser extent in Canada 9.1 Decline of the welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing income and wealth inequalities and the weakening of social infrastructures within ... Support of caregivers is limited to home care financed by Medicare and Medicaid Conclusion: the welfare state and women’s quality of life The findings concerning women’s quality of life in Canada ... all indicators illuminate the state of political and economic forces that influence the quality of life of women in Canada and elsewhere A number of indicators from the HDR [26] map onto this quality

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... Trang 1URBAN AUDIT PERCEPTION SURVEY LOCAL PERCEPTIONS OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN 31 EUROPEAN CITIES Trang 22 Trang 3Introduction This leaflet presents the result of the Urban Audit Perception ... was conducted in January 2004 to measure the local perceptions of quality of life in 31 European cities The first part diverging opinions: (1) employment opportunities, (2) housing costs, (3) ... costs, (3) safety, (4) cleanliness of cities, (5) public transport, (6) air pollution, (7) integration of immigrants and (8) overall satisfaction with the quality of life of their city The annex presents

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... measured by EQ-5D TTO and VAS indices Increasing age was associated with worse baseline EQ-5D TTO and VAS indices; on the other hand increasing income cor-related with better baseline EQ-5D TTO values ... should be kept in mind that the point of focus of this study is the identification of predictors modifying the worsening (aggravation) of HRQoL at any time point before or after VABB In an attempt ... short-term pain Commenting on late effects, a striking finding is that long-term pain (EQ-5D pain/discomfort and SF-36 Bodily Pain dimensions) seemed rather idiosyncratic, since none of the predictors

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... research in pediatric cardiology internation-ally, and meeting professional requirements in a pedia-tric population brings more difficulty than in adults: identifying the relevant quality-of-life ... Pediatric quality of life studies that investigate the individuals’ percep-tions of their well-being in a multidimensional aspect (physical and psychosocial dimensions) are a relatively new field of ... components of these child-patients and how to measure them, showing sensitivity to the continuous and rapid cognitive and emotional development of children, getting information from the patient and

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... responsiveness of generic and specific quality-of-life instru-ments J Clin Epidemiol 2003, 56(1):52-60. 39. Coons SJ, Rao S, Keininger DL, Hays RD: A comparative review of generic quality-of-life instruments ... Assessing the impact of visual acuity on quality of life in individuals with type 2 diabe-tes using the short form-36 Diabediabe-tes Care 2006, 29(7):1506-1511. 19. Klein R, Moss SE, Klein BE, ... terms of frequencies and percentages, and continuous variables were summa-rized in terms of means and standard deviations Prelimi-nary analyses were conducted to examine reliability and validity of

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... assessscor-ing erosions and joint space narrowing of joints of hands and feet in peripheral PsA The proposed adapted scoring method for PsA is a detailed scoring method evaluating erosions, joint space ... agents) with the goal of preventing or slowing permanent structural joint damage and long-term disability in IRD is the accurate monitoring of HRQL in daily practice and in clinical trials [37] ... of skin involvement, erythema, plaque thickness, and degree of scaling [31] The PASI score can vary in increments of 0.1 units from 0 to 72, with higher scores representing a greater degree of

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... following guidelines For continuous variables meas-ured on a 0–100 scale (including coping), we assume that a 5 point difference is of some, and a 10 point difference of substantial clinical ... adjustment and is of importance for their well-being [19,20] By improving our understanding of the characteristics which are associated with symptoms, function, coping and well-being in CAD patients, ... previously included use of coping strategies in evaluating associa-tions between disease severity and HRQOL dimensions in CAD patients Coping is claimed to be one of the core concept in medical and

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Quality of Life Outcomes 2 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 3 Health-related Quality of Life Outcomes 4 Patient Reported Outcomes Published: 6 January 2003 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... overall quality of life but also elements of quality of life such as health and functioning as well as symptom relief and psychological and spiritual well-being. 2 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes: ... quality of life If so, then the titles "Health-related quality of life outcomes" and Health and quality of life" are closer to the journal's intent James W Varni, Ph.D Professor of

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 163(5):1256-1276 12. Juniper EF, Guyatt GH and Jaeschke R How to develop and vali-date a new quality of life instrument In: Quality of Life and Phar-macoeconomics in Clinical Trials (Edited by: Spilker ... impact of the disease on patients' well-being, and therefore the CCQ is not a tool to measure health related quality of life In contrast, health related quality of life instruments are measuring ... one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in industri-alized and developing countries The mortality rate for COPD is rising and COPD will probably become the third leading cause of

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... percentages of patients reporting doing the functions had increased to 40%, 28%, 23%, and 46% for squatting, running, jumping, and twisting/pivoting The percentage reporting kneeling had decreased ... Table 4: Mean (SD) of the KOOS and WOMAC at baseline and follow-ups at 6 and 12 months 0–100 worst to best scale KOOS WOMAC Trang 7jumping, turning/twisting and kneeling being of greatimportance ... improvement in the subscales Pain, Symptoms, Activities of Daily Living, and knee-related Quality of Life to be extremely or very important when deciding to have their knee operated on indicating good

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... collection and collation, data analysis, writing and editing of the manuscript CM was involved in the conception and design of the study, as well as data analysis and writing and editing of the manuscript ... score in the leisure domain of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire greater than 600 MET-min·wk-1 Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... activity A recent review of exercise intervention studies in persons with MS, found Figure Quality of life scores in people with multiple sclerosis Quality of life scores in people with multiple...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Adolescent distinctions between quality of life and self-rated health in quality of life research Health Qual Life Outcomes 2005, 3:64 Veenhoven R: The four qualities of life J Happiness Stud 2000, ... Indirect effect of physical or mental health status on global quality of life as mediated by one of the life domains Sum of all indirect effects for physical and mental health status explaining ... health-related quality of life A conceptual model of patient outcomes J Am Med Assoc 1995, 273:59-65 16 Ferrans CE: Definitions and conceptual models of quality of life Outcomes Assessment in Cancer:...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... GSRS, Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale; QOLRAD, Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia questionnaire Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... I: Handling missing data in quality of life questionnaires: Experience from clinical trials 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Barcelona, Spain 1999 ... validation of the German translation of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) and Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia (QOLRAD) questionnaire in patients with reflux disease Health Qual Life...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20