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  1. Patients have about seven medical consultations a year. Despite the importance of medical interviews in the healthcare process, there is no generic instrument to assess patients’ experiences in general practic...

    Authors: Axel Maurice-Szamburski, Pierre Michel, Anderson Loundou and Pascal Auquier
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:36
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  2. Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is an inherited, multi-system, tumour suppressor disorder with variable complications that cause psychological distress and social isolation. The study aim was to develop and validate...

    Authors: Rosalie E Ferner, Mary Thomas, Gemma Mercer, Victoria Williams, Guy D Leschziner, Shazia K Afridi and John F Golding
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:34
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  3. Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, collectively referred to as dystrophinopathies, are recessive X-linked disorders characterized by progressive muscle weakness and ultimately cardiac and respiratory fa...

    Authors: Natalia Frishman, Kristin Caspers Conway, Jennifer Andrews, Jacob Oleson, Katherine Mathews, Emma Ciafaloni, Joyce Oleszek, Molly Lamb, Dennis Matthews, Pangaja Paramsothy, Lowell McKirgan and Paul Romitti
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:33
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  4. The Press Ganey® Medical Practice Survey (“Press Ganey® survey”) is a patient-reported questionnaire commonly used to measure patient satisfaction with outpatient health care in the United States. Our objectiv...

    Authors: Angela P. Presson, Chong Zhang, Amir M. Abtahi, Jacob Kean, Man Hung and Andrew R. Tyser
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:32
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  5. The autoimmune bullous diseases quality of life (ABQOL) questionnaire was recently developed by an Australian group and has been validated in Australian and North American patient cohorts. It is a 17-item, mul...

    Authors: Baoqi Yang, Guo Chen, Qing Yang, Xiaoxiao Yan, Zhaoxia Zhang, Dédée F. Murrell and Furen Zhang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:31
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  6. The Pelvic Girdle Questionnaire is the only instrument designed to assess pain and disability specifically in pregnant or postpartum women with pelvic girdle pain. The objective of this study was the adaptatio...

    Authors: Montserrat Rejano-Campo, Raúl Ferrer-Peña, M. Alicia Urraca-Gesto, Tomás Gallego-Izquierdo, Daniel Pecos-Martín, Britt Stuge and Gustavo Plaza-Manzano
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:30
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  7. Patient-centered approaches offer an alternative method in evaluating treatment outcomes. This study investigated; 1) if patient’s criteria for success (satisfaction of clinical outcomes) changes from pre to p...

    Authors: Giorgio Zeppieri Jr. and Steven Z. George
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:29
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  8. The Health Education Impact Questionnaire (heiQ) evaluates the effectiveness of health education and self-management programs provided to people dealing with a wide range of conditions. Aim of this study was t...

    Authors: Judy W. Ammerlaan, Harmieke van Os-Medendorp, Jacob K. Sont, Gerald R. Elsworth and Richard H. Osborne
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:28
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  9. Optimal diabetes care requires a specific set of self-management behaviours. The purpose of this study was to present the development and initial psychometric evaluation of a new tool to measure three key aspe...

    Authors: Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Ronnie Aronson, Ashleigh Walker, Ruth E. Brown and Naomi Orzech
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:27
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  10. Threatened premature labor (TPL) is a severe obstetric complication which affects the mental and physical health of both the mother and fetus. Family resilience may have protective role against psychological d...

    Authors: Chunhua Nie, Qin Dai, Ren Zhao, Yushu Dong, Yushan Chen and Hui Ren
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:26
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  11. Health utilities are preference-based measures for health states which are typically used in economic analyses to estimate quality-adjusted life years. Our aim is to report the standard SF-6D health utility sc...

    Authors: Zobair Younossi, Maria Stepanova, Masao Omata, Masashi Mizokami, Mercedes Walters and Sharon Hunt
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:25
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  12. The Hirschsprung’s disease Anorectal malformation QoL questionnaire (HAQL) is a disease-specific quality of life (QoL) questionnaire for patients with Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) or anorectal malformations (AR...

    Authors: Corine Baayen, Fanny Feuillet, Pauline Clermidi, Célia Crétolle, Sabine Sarnacki, Guillaume Podevin and Jean-Benoit Hardouin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:24
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  13. This paper describes the cross-cultural adaptation of the Psychosocial Impact of Dental Aesthetics Questionnaire (PIDAQ) into Malay version (Malay PIDAQ), an oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) instru...

    Authors: Wan Nurazreena Wan Hassan, Zamros Yuzadi Mohd Yusof, Siti Safuraa Zahirah Shahidan, Siti Farhana Mohd Ali and Mohd Zambri Mohamed Makhbul
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:23
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  14. Occupations, including physical activity, are a strong determinant of health. However, mobility limitations can restrict opportunities to perform these occupations, which may affect quality of life. Some peopl...

    Authors: Félix Côté-Leclerc, Gabrielle Boileau Duchesne, Patrick Bolduc, Amélie Gélinas-Lafrenière, Corinne Santerre, Johanne Desrosiers and Mélanie Levasseur
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:22
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  15. With an ageing population, the number of people with dementia is rising. The economic impact on the health care system is considerable and new treatment methods and approaches to dementia care must be cost eff...

    Authors: Kim-Huong Nguyen, Brendan Mulhern, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Joshua Byrnes, Wendy Moyle and Tracy Comans
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:21
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  16. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties, namely acceptability, validity, reliability, interpretability and responsiveness of the EuroQol EQ-5D (EQ-5D visual analogue (VAS) and EQ-5D (ut...

    Authors: Melina Dritsaki, Stavros Petrou, Mark Williams and Sarah E. Lamb
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:20
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  17. There are very few studies about general quality of life parameters, standards for the description of health status and comparison with general population data on patients with Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiec...

    Authors: Roberto Zarrabeitia, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Miguel Santibáñez, Blanca Señaris, Ana Fontalba, Luisa María Botella and José Antonio Parra
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:19
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  18. To determine if the EuroQol Health Related Quality of Life survey produces equivalent results when administered by phone interview or patient-completed forms.

    Authors: R. Chatterji, J. M. Naylor, I. A. Harris, E. Armstrong, E. Davidson, R. Ekmejian and J. Descallar
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:18
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  19. Family caregivers of cancer patients often experience an impaired quality of life (QOL) and emotional distress as a result of their caregiving duties, which may potentially influence the quality of care of the...

    Authors: Rathi Mahendran, Haikel A. Lim, Joyce Y. S. Tan, Hui Ying Ng, Joanne Chua, Siew Eng Lim, Ee Heok Kua and Konstadina Griva
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:17
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  20. The impact on informal caregivers of caring for people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia can be substantial, but it remains unclear which measures(s) best assess such impact. Our objective was to use data...

    Authors: Catherine Reed, Annabel Barrett, Jeremie Lebrec, Richard Dodel, Roy W. Jones, Bruno Vellas, Anders Wimo, Josep Maria Argimon, Giuseppe Bruno and Josep Maria Haro
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:16
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  21. Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a common complication of diabetes and not only an important factor of mortality among patients with diabetes but also decreases the quality of life. The short form of Diabetic Foot...

    Authors: Tomasz Macioch, Elżbieta Sobol, Arkadiusz Krakowiecki, Beata Mrozikiewicz-Rakowska, Monika Kasprowicz and Tomasz Hermanowski
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:15
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  22. Consequences after Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affect the injured person’s self-image and quality of life. The purpose was to assess the health related quality of life (HRQoL) at 12 months after a TBI in pati...

    Authors: Helene Lundgaard Soberg, Cecilie Roe, Cathrine Brunborg, Nicole von Steinbüchel and Nada Andelic
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:14
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  24. The EQ-5D-Y, an outcome measure of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in children, was developed by an international task team in 2010. The multinational feasibility, reliability and validity study which f...

    Authors: Des Scott, Gillian D. Ferguson and Jennifer Jelsma
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:12
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  25. Herpes zoster (HZ) has a significant negative effect on the productive work life of individuals, and has been shown to be responsible for cases of absenteeism, presenteeism and decreased work effectiveness. Th...

    Authors: Emmanouil Rampakakis, Melissa Stutz, Kosuke Kawai, Tsen-Fang Tsai, Hee Jin Cheong, Jittima Dhitavat, Alejandro Ortiz-Covarrubias, Miguel Cashat-Cruz, Homero Monsanto, Kelly D. Johnson, John S. Sampalis and Camilo J. Acosta
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:11
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  26. Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is one of the most burdensome cardiovascular diseases in terms of the cost of interventions. The Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme (CRP) is well-established in improving clinical o...

    Authors: Lawrence Anchah, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Melissa Siaw Han Lim, Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim, Kui Hian Sim and Tiong Kiam Ong
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:10
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  27. Quality-adjusted life years (QALY) is a single value index that quantifies the overall burden of disease. It reflects all aspects of heath, including nonfatal illness and mortality outcomes by weighting life-y...

    Authors: Haomiao Jia and Erica I. Lubetkin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:9
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  28. The Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief COPE) inventory is the most usual measure to identify the nature of coping strategies implemented by individuals and explore 14 coping strategies. Th...

    Authors: Karine Baumstarck, Marine Alessandrini, Zeinab Hamidou, Pascal Auquier, Tanguy Leroy and Laurent Boyer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:8
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  29. No universally accepted definition of multimorbidity (MM) exists, and implications of different definitions have not been explored. This study examined the performance of the count and cluster definitions of m...

    Authors: Lili Wang, Andrew J Palmer, Fiona Cocker and Kristy Sanderson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:7
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  30. Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder with a prevalence of 6 per 100.000. Despite increasing research activity on HD, evidence on healthcare utilization, patients’ needs for healthcare...

    Authors: Marleen R. van Walsem, Emilie I. Howe, Gunvor A. Ruud, Jan C. Frich and Nada Andelic
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:6
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  32. Older adults are encouraged by many organizations to engage in advance care planning in the event of decisional incapacity. Planning for future health care often involves anticipating health-related quality of...

    Authors: Gina Bravo, Modou Sene and Marcel Arcand
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:4
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  34. The Achilles tendon Total Rupture Score (ATRS), which is originally developed in 2007 in Swedish, is the only patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for specific outcome assessment of an Achilles tendon ruptu...

    Authors: Jin Cui, Zhenyu Jia, Xin Zhi, Xiaoqun Li, Xiao Zhai, Liehu Cao, Weizong Weng, Jun Zhang, Lin Wang, Xiao Chen and Jiacan Su
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:2
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  35. Smoking has been shown to reduce health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing percutanous coronary intervention (PCI) either by means of balloon angioplasty ...

    Authors: Chao Xue, Lin Bian, Yu Shui Xie, Zhao Fang Yin, Zuo Jun Xu, Qi Zhi Chen, Hui Li Zhang and Chang Qian Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:1
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  36. Survivors’ testimonies can reveal much about men’s experiences of prostate cancer and impacts on their quality of life (QOL) during the clinical trajectory of the disease. These survivors’ shared thoughts and ...

    Authors: Margareth Santos Zanchetta, Marguerite Cognet, Mary Rachel Lam-Kin-Teng, Marie Elisabeth Dumitriu, Lise Renaud and Jacques Rhéaume
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:171
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  37. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) has been widely used and has proven to be a valid and reliable instrument for assessing satisfaction with life in diverse population groups, however, research on satisfa...

    Authors: Mariana López-Ortega, Sara Torres-Castro and Oscar Rosas-Carrasco
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:170
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  38. To analyze the interplay between diet, physical activity and health-related quality of life in a Spanish randomly selected sample of individuals attended in general practitioners offices with intermediate card...

    Authors: Natalia Sanchez-Aguadero, Rosario Alonso-Dominguez, Luis Garcia-Ortiz, Cristina Agudo-Conde, Carmela Rodriguez-Martin, Angela de Cabo-Laso, Benigna Sanchez-Salgado, Rafel Ramos, Jose A. Maderuelo-Fernandez, Manuel A. Gomez-Marcos and Jose I. Recio-Rodriguez
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:169
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  39. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been positioned as one of the major endpoints in oncology. Thus, there is a need to validate cancer-site specific survey instruments. This study aimed to perform a tr...

    Authors: Amélie Anota, Anne-Sophie Mariet, Philippe Maingon, Florence Joly, Jean-François Bosset, Anne-Valérie Guizard, Hugues Bittard, Michel Velten and Mariette Mercier
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:168
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  40. An important challenge of the longitudinal analysis of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is the potential occurrence of a Response Shift (RS) effect. While the impact of RS effect on the longitudinal anal...

    Authors: Ahmad Ousmen, Thierry Conroy, Francis Guillemin, Michel Velten, Damien Jolly, Mariette Mercier, Sylvain Causeret, Jean Cuisenier, Olivier Graesslin, Zeinab Hamidou, Franck Bonnetain and Amélie Anota
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:167
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  41. To investigate the association between weight status and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among pupils in Guangzhou, China.

    Authors: Wei Liu, Rong Lin, Weijia Liu, Zhongshan Guo, Lihua Xiong, Bai Li, K. K. Cheng, Peymane Adab and Miranda Pallan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:166
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  42. The aim of this study is to measure gender differences in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among men and women patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and to assess the impact of socioeconomic facto...

    Authors: Anastase Tchicaya and Nathalie Lorentz
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:165
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  43. In health economic analyses, health states are typically valued using instruments with few items per dimension. Due to the generic (and often reductionist) nature of such instruments, certain groups of respond...

    Authors: Yvonne Anne Michel, Lidia Engel, Kim Rand-Hendriksen, Liv Ariane Augestad and David GT Whitehurst
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:164
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  44. A cost-utility study of a human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine requires that the utility weights for HPV-related health states (i.e., cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), cervical cancer, and condyloma) be...

    Authors: Minsu Ock, Jeong-Yeol Park, Woo-Seung Son, Hyeon-Jeong Lee, Seon-Ha Kim and Min-Woo Jo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:163
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  45. Night and shift work status has been associated with health related quality of life (HRQoL) in economically active women. This study aimed to investigate the association between night or shift work status and ...

    Authors: Woorim Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Tae-Hoon Lee, Jae Woo Choi and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:162
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  46. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is generally associated with considerable morbidity and reduced quality of life. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) provide important information about the burden of di...

    Authors: Edith Poku, Rosie Duncan, Anju Keetharuth, Munira Essat, Patrick Phillips, Helen Buckley Woods, Simon Palfreyman, Georgina Jones, Eva Kaltenthaler and Jonathan Michaels
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:161
    Content type: Review Published on:

  47. Sudden cardiac deaths have become a growing major public health concern that affects the world. Despite the various etiologies, life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias attribute the main cause of sudden cardiac d...

    Authors: Sim Leng Ooi, Hong-Gu He, Yanhong Dong and Wenru Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:160
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  48. Poor sleep quality is common in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and may lead to disease aggravation and decreased health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The increasing prevalence of poor sleep in RA patien...

    Authors: Genkai Guo, Ting Fu, Rulan Yin, Lijuan Zhang, Qiuxiang Zhang, Yunfei Xia, Liren Li and Zhifeng Gu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:151
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  49. Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) commonly present with more than one comorbid condition, contributing to poorer health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The aim of our study was to identify the associ...

    Authors: Ksenija Tušek-Bunc and Davorina Petek
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:159
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  50. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) has become a major health problem globally, affecting patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is a precancerous lesion associated with ...

    Authors: Chi-Yang Chang, Lukas Jyuhn-Hsiarn Lee, Jung-Der Wang, Ching-Tai Lee, Chi-Ming Tai, Tao-Qian Tang and Jaw-Town Lin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:158
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