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... knee-related quality of life (QOL) with an ef- fect size of 2.86 at 6 months and 3.54 at 12 months. The second most responsive subscale was Pain with effects siz- es of 2.28 and 2.55 at 6 and 12 months, ... possible qual- ity of life score (Table 6). Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, 1 http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/17 Page 5 of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Comparison of the KOOS ... the WOM- AC is the inclusion of the subscale knee-related Quality of Life. Knee-related Quality of Life was reported to be ex- tremely or very important by over 90% of the patients, was the most

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... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Research Classical test theory versus Rasch analysis for quality of life questionnaire reduction Luis Prieto*1, Jordi Alonso2 and Rosa ... purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, of use" registry, kept by one of the authors (JA) since 1987 Of the 119 studies identified, data were available from 45, covering a total of 9,419 ... Health Profile, NHP, quality of life, measure of health status, questionnaire, reliability, validity, Spanish, and Spain) Other studies were identified from the Spanish NHP38 "cession Page of 13

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... initiation and design of the research, collection and analysis of the data and writing the paper EP – co-analysis of the data and editorial revision of draft papers MJ – supervision of the project and ... AG and Voruganti LNP: Quality of life and new antipsy-chotics in schizophrenia: are patients better off? Int J Soc Psychiatry 1999, 45(4):264-275. 9. Katshnig H: Schizophrenia and quality of life ... Hamilton SH, Ganoczy D and Beasley CM: Olanzapine versus haloperidol in the treatment of schizo-phrenia and other psychotic disorders: quality of life and clin-ical outcomes of a randomised clinclin-ical

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... Conceptual model of quality of life in childhood epilepsy Figure 1 Conceptual model of quality of life in childhood epilepsy Seizures Adverse Drug Effects Stigma, etc Epilepsy Child -Resiliency ... Dev Med Child Neurol 1999, 41:554-559. 33. Eiser C: Children's quality of life measures Arch Dis Child 1997, 77:350-354. 34. Rosenbaum P and Saigal S: Measuring health related quality of life in ... reviewhealth-related quality of lifeoutcomemeasureschildrenepilepsyself-report measureparentsproxygoals of care Abstract Childhood epilepsy is one of the most important and prevalent neurological

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... verify the ability of stroke survivors to go through a task of preference elicitation, Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, and to estimate ... Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/43 Table 2: Mean impact scores of 43 items* from mailed survey of long-term ... function to gather information on psychometric properties of the PBSI Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, Background There is increasing recognition

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... postchemotherapy quality of life was assessed 7 days after chemotherapy administration instead of 4 or 2 days The importance of the time of administration and of the time frame of quality of life assessment ... and Osterhaus JT: Quality of life consequences of chemotherapy-induced emesis Qual Life Res 1992, 1:331-340. 9. Schipper H, Clinch J, McMurray A and Levitt M: Measuring the quality of life of ... chemo-therapy and on day 2 and day 6 to assess the impact nau-sea and vomiting had on quality of life of the patients [16] Patients who experienced either nausea or vomiting had a decrease in quality of life

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... interpretation of the data and critical revision of the manuscript; WCR contributed to the conception and design of the study, acquisition of data and funding, analysis and interpretation of the data, and ... nature of CFS, scant research has adequately addressed the impact of this syn-drome on patients' daily activities and quality of life Enu-merating specific problems related to quality of life in ... and Egle UT: Health-related quality of life in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, An international study J Psychosom Res 2001, 51:431-434. 6. Anderson JS and Ferrans CE: The quality of life

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... family of generic health profiles and preferencebased systems for the purposes of measuring health status, reporting health-related quality of life, and producing utility scores Health-related quality ... purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare interventions; and 4) the health status of general populations HUI currently consists of two systems, ... interviewed in these surveys and banked as part of Statistics Canada's mandate to collect, store and Page 10 of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/54

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... dimensions such as Sport and Recreation Function and leg-related Quality of Life to the WOMAC can give a more descriptive picture of a subject, or a fuller picture of the impact of an intervention ... disability and quality of life are key outcomes that influence the patients' compliance and satisfaction with the treatment and such measures should be based on self-assessment [5,6] The Knee Injury and ... Sport and Recreation 0.76 and for QOL 0.85 Bland and Altman plots of repeatability are given in Figure 2 For all subscales, 95% of the differences against the means were less than two standard

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... Central Page 1 of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Open Access Research Life at the end of life: beliefs about individual life after death and "good ... felt the lack of a socially recognized and accepted secular way of dying. Secular rituals are lacking, and realizing scenes of death which contain and respect Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... "death". Images of life and images of death. (What makes you think of life and death?) The presence of death in your history: when, on what occasion, did it occur in your life? On these occasions

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... Patients' Assessment of Their Visual Function and Quality of Life Journal of Glaucoma 2002, 11(2):154-163 Nordmann J, Touboul C, Auzanneau N and Berdeaux G: Vision Related Quality of Life of French Patients ... tool to evaluate the impact of pharmacological agents on quality of life Archives of Internal Medicine 1999, 159(7):693-700 Awad AG and Voruganti LN: Quality of life and new antipsychotics in schizophrenia ... overlap was observed between EofU and CofU (r = 56) EI and HYP were also correlated at 40 The correlation of EofU and CofU with EFF was bit higher than expected (r = 40 and 43 respectively) although

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... reported [17]) of how quality of life is related to specific measures of nocturnal sleep and daytime sleepiness in a sample of stable HD patients Our hypothesis was that reduced quality of life would ... comparisons of normal subjects to patients with sleep abnormalities[15,35-37] and uses a MSLT score < 8 minutes as indicative of abnormal sleepiness Evaluation of Quality of Life Quality of life ... quality of life and both subjective and objective measures of nocturnal sleep and daytime sleepiness Methods: The sample included forty-six HD patients, 24 men and 22 women, with a mean age of

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... [3] Although the literature contains a number of reliable and valid instruments to measure quality of life (QOL) [5-8], oncology health care experts and regulatory agencies have resisted using ... Committee subcom-mittee on Quality of Life has suggested that assessment of symptoms might represent a reasonable place to start in working toward a goal of more focused assessment of QOL domains [23] ... previously reported symp-toms and concerns of cancer patients in general, and pros-tate cancer patients specifically Pain and fatigue have been highlighted in a number of studies of symptom assessment

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... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Research Health related quality of life in and year old children and their parents: preliminary findings ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, Background There are now a number of validated health-related quality of life (HRQL) instruments available for use with adults, and these are often routinely ... related quality of life exist for use with preschool aged children The objective of this study was to assess reliability and validity of a new multidimensional generic measure of health-related quality

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... validation, and correlations with the Assessment of Quality of Life in Palliative Care Instrument (AQEL), and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Core Quality of Life ... "Psychological Affect", and "Overall Quality of Life", and higher mean values on the health status scale, represent more symptomatology and worse quality of life [7] The current procedures ... quality of life When consider-ing quality of life in advanced cancer patients one of the treatment choices is a palliative one, therefore we consider of great importance the inclusion of a new

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... 2Avoid medical errors Quality of Life Dimension: Anxiety Figure Relationship of needs to satisfaction and quality of life Relationship of needs to satisfaction and quality of life in the Item Response ... well as among needs and satisfaction and quality of life, should be better understood if we hope to improve care and quality of life This understanding is important for designing and conducting needs ... between needs and quality of life Possible1 Possible proximal relationship between needs and quality of life Need 1: Avoid guilt of bothering MD + Satisfaction with care - Need 2: Understand prognosis

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... good predictor of patients' medication adherence across different types of medication and patient populations Page of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... Advocates of VAS methods contest this assertion and refer to the ease of use, brevity and condensed layout of VAS rating scales [52] Page of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality ... number of NFO respondents in each of the illness groups, the length of time on the current medication, the route of its administration, their rating of the severity of illness, and their rating of

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... assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQL) post-stroke [Abstract] Quality of Life Research 2001, 10:204 Hagedoorn M, Sneeuw KC, Aaronson NK: Changes in physical functioning and quality of life ... of life Sprangers and Schwartz (1999) theoretical model of response shift and quality of life Antecedents S3 S2 Change in Quality of Life S1 Catalysts C1 C2 A2 Explained by Standard Model C3 Mechanisms ... healthrelated quality of life: a conceptual model of patient outcomes JAMA 1995, 273:59-65 Friedland J, Renwick R, McColl M: Coping and social support as determinants of quality of life in HIV/AIDS

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