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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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... Arch Dis Child 1997, 77:350-354. 34. Rosenbaum P and Saigal S: Measuring health related quality of life in pediatric populations In: Quality of life and pharmacoeconom-ics in clinical trials 2nd ... probably those of children functioning at Conceptual model of quality of life in childhood epilepsy Figure 1 Conceptual model of quality of life in childhood epilepsy Seizures Adverse Drug Effects ... K and Pollock BH: Quality of life research in pediat-ric oncology Research methods and barriers Cancer 1996, 78:1333-1339. 32. Ronen GM, Rosenbaum P, Law M and Streiner DL: Health-related quality

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... the population sources and socio-demographic characteristics of subjects for each step of the study Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/43 ... verify the ability of stroke survivors to go through a task of preference elicitation, Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, and to estimate ... School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, School of Physical and Occupational Therapys, 3630 Promenade Sir-William-Osler, Montréal, Québec, H3G 1Y5, Canada and 4McGill University, Division of

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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 ... aspects of quality of life In spite of their limitations, several observational studies showed that nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy induced a decrease in health-related 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 ... 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 ... 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

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... the Health Utilities Index (HUI)? HUI is a family of generic health profiles and preferencebased systems for the purposes of measuring health status, reporting health-related quality of life, and ... 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 ... in health and health economics at McMaster University 15 16 George Torrance, PhD "Grandfather" of the utility approach to assessing health status and health related quality of life Developer of

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... relate to sport and recreational activities or to leg-related quality of life Functional disability and quality of life are key outcomes that influence the patients' compliance and satisfaction ... 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 ... 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 ... BioMedcentral Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, 1 http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/65 Page 10 of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) 20. Low JT and Payne S: The good and bad perceptions of health

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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 ... severity of symptoms, the functional impact of illness, utility and preference measures for treatment options, the impact of illness on healthrelated quality of life and well-being, and various

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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 ... prevalence of physical and psycho-logical symptoms as well as the impact of these symptoms on patients' QOL [1] For patients with advanced disease who have reduced life expectancy and no immediate ... Research and Education (CORE), Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Northwestern University, 1001 University Place, Suite 100, Evanston, IL 60201 USA, 2 University of New England College of Osteopathic

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... purposes) 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ( Emotional Health) - Figure proximal relationship between needs and quality of life Possible1 Possible proximal relationship between needs and quality of life Need 1: Avoid guilt of bothering

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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 ... with 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 ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Review Toward a theoretical model of quality-of-life appraisal: Implications of findings from studies of response shift

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... clinical variables fails to explain sex differences in health related quality of life outcomes Published: 05 May 2004 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004, 2:21 Received: 12 March 2004 Accepted: ... treatment and course of recovery for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) continue to exist There is a general paucity of data comparing the health related quality of life (HRQOL) in men and ... Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 4 Centre for Health and Policy Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and 5 Department of Medicine,

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... the internet Regardless of the model of care, there are a number of characteristics of anticoagulation that can potentially induce dissatisfaction and reduce quality of life Among these characteristics ... development and preliminary val-idation of the DASS, a scale to measure satisfaction and quality of life with anticoagulation Individual DASS items showed sufficient variation, and the large majority of ... measuring quality of life and satisfaction with anticoagulation that can be generalized across different models of anticoagulation management We describe the development and preliminary validation of

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... difference of 5 and a standard deviation of 20 for the GH dimension of the SF-36, then using equation 1 leads to an parametric estimate of the effect size pNoether = Pr(Y > X) of 0.57 and consequently ... the GH and RP dimensions are displayed in Table 3 for a variety of sample sizes Both tests (t-test and MW) are 'robust' tests of the equality of means (and dis-tributions) for both the GH and RP ... ∆Normal is the standardised effect size index, µT and µC are the expected group means of outcome variable under the null and alternative hypotheses and σ is the standard deviation of outcome variable

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