Letter to the Editor
We investigated factors that physicians consider of most importance in the selection of second line tyrosine kinase inhibitors treatments (TKIs) in chronic myeloid leukemia patients (CML).
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:204
Published on: 18 October 2017
Research
No effective constructs were available in mainland China to assess the whole spine function. The SFI was developed to evaluate spinal function based on the concept of a single kinetic chain concept for whole s...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:203
Published on: 18 October 2017
Research
The efficacy of ALO-02, an abuse-deterrent formulation containing extended-release oxycodone and sequestered naltrexone, in the treatment of chronic low back pain (CLBP) was studied in a 12-week randomized con...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:202
Published on: 17 October 2017
Research
Physicians consider ease of use, satisfaction, and preferences when prescribing an inhaler device. These factors may impact appropriate usage and compliance.
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:201
Published on: 16 October 2017
Research
Numerous study tools on diabetes self-care have been introduced; however, most existing tools do not show expectable and meaningful correlations with patients’ glycaemic control. The Diabetes Self-Management Q...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:200
Published on: 12 October 2017
Research
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a vital benchmark to assess the effects of health interventions and policies. Measuring HRQOL of the general population is essential to establish a reference for healt...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:199
Published on: 11 October 2017
Research
It is well documented that obesity is strongly associated with mortality and morbidity, but less is known about its impact on functional status and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The purpose of this s...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:197
Published on: 10 October 2017
Research
Economic environmental factors represent important barriers to participation and have deleterious effects on quality of life (QOL) in persons with spinal diseases (SpD). While economic factors are anchored in ...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:196
Published on: 10 October 2017
Research
The Children’s Response Styles Questionnaire (CRSQ) is a widely-adopted inventory that assesses response styles in youths. It is useful in examining how coping styles (particularly rumination) may relate to de...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:198
Published on: 10 October 2017
Research
Valuations of health state descriptors such as EQ-5D or SF6D have been conducted in different countries. There is a scope to make use of the results in one country as informative priors to help with the analys...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:195
Published on: 6 October 2017
Research
Children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) require life-long glucocorticoid replacement and have daily intermittent hyper/hypocortisolemia and hyperandrogenemia. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) i...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:194
Published on: 6 October 2017
Meeting abstracts
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15(Suppl 1):185
Published on: 5 October 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 15 Supplement 1
Research
The HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) aims to measure symptoms of anxiety (HADS Anxiety) and depression (HADS Depression). The HADS is widely used but has shown ambiguous results both regarding the ...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:193
Published on: 4 October 2017
Research
Disputes exist regarding the psychometric properties of the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI). The present study was to examine the reliability, validity, and dimensionality of a Chinese version of the ODI versi...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:192
Published on: 3 October 2017
Research
Utilizing a cohort study design combining a survey approach with repeated physical examinations, we examined the independent effects of BMI on mortality and self-reported health (SRH) and whether these indepen...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:191
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research
The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between subjective life expectancy (SLE) and self-rated health and further SLE will predict higher risk for mortality.
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:190
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) represents a heavy burden for patients and the society as a whole. The Oxford Knee Score (OKS) is a well known tool to assess the quality of life in patients with Knee OA. The purpose ...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:186
Published on: 29 September 2017
Review
To determine the effectiveness of integrated care interventions in improving the Quality of Life (QoL) for patients with chronic conditions.
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:188
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research
Many existing patient-reported outcome measures are extensive regarding both patient burden and administration, and in terms of analysing and reporting results. The VascuQoL-6 (VQ6) – a short version of the or...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:187
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research
Along with its high prevalence, the burden of allergic rhinitis rests upon the serious impact on quality of life of patients. Allergic rhinitis is associated with impairments in daily activities, work and scho...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:189
Published on: 29 September 2017
Research
The VascuQoL-6 (VQ-6) health-related quality of life questionnaire, a short version of the disease-specific VascuQoL-25, was developed for clinical practice and use in vascular registries. The study purpose wa...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:184
Published on: 22 September 2017
Research
It has been hypothesized that adaptation of health practice guidelines to the local setting is expected to improve their uptake and implementation while cutting on required resources. We recently adapted the p...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:183
Published on: 21 September 2017
Research
The responsiveness of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) has varied greatly across studies; hence, we hypothesized that this discrepancy could be related to the complexity of dental treatmen...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:182
Published on: 20 September 2017
Research
Due to risk and response adapted treatment strategies, more than 80% of newly diagnosed classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients can be cured, and become long-term survivors. However, a high proportion of surv...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:180
Published on: 19 September 2017
Research
Rasch analysis with a focus on Differential Item Functioning (DIF) is increasingly used for examination of psychometric properties of health outcome measures. To take account of DIF in order to retain precisio...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:181
Published on: 19 September 2017
