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  1. Coronory heart disease (CHD) is a common medical problem worldwide that demands shared care of general practitioners and cardiologists for concerned patients. In order to improve the cooperation between both m...

    Authors: Lena Kramer, Oliver Hirsch, Kathrin Schlöβler, Susanne Träger, Erika Baum and Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:78
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  2. TB and HIV co-morbidity amount to a massive burden on healthcare systems in many countries. This study investigates health related quality of life among tuberculosis (TB), TB retreatment and TB-HIV co-infected...

    Authors: Julia Louw, Karl Peltzer, Pamela Naidoo, Gladys Matseke, Gugu Mchunu and Bomkazi Tutshana
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:77
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  4. Aims of this study were to identify aspects of functioning and health relevant to patients with vertigo expressed by ICF categories and to explore the potential of the ICF to describe the patient perspective i...

    Authors: Martin Mueller, Edith Schuster, Ralf Strobl and Eva Grill
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:75
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  5. Vertebral fractures could lead to reduced physical, social and mental functioning, and loss of personal independence. Therefore, during the treatment of osteoporosis, it has become necessary to examine the cha...

    Authors: Ivana Tadic, Nada Vujasinovic Stupar, Ljiljana Tasic, Dejan Stevanovic, Aleksandar Dimic, Bojana Stamenkovic, Sonja Stojanovic and Sasa Milenkovic
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:74
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  6. Children with mental health problems have been neglected in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) studies. Therefore, the aims of the current study were 1) to assess the influence of the presence of mental or ph...

    Authors: Michelle Dey, Meichun Mohler-Kuo and Markus A Landolt
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:73
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  7. Sleep disturbance is a complex health problem in ageing global populations decreasing quality of life among many older people. Geographic, cultural, and ethnic differences in sleep patterns have been documente...

    Authors: Catherine MH Lo and Paul H Lee
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:72
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  8. To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients in different stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) up to initiation of dialysis treatment and to explore possible correlating and influencing fac...

    Authors: Agneta A Pagels, Birgitta Klang Söderkvist, Charlotte Medin, Britta Hylander and Susanne Heiwe
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:71
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  9. In developing the PatientsLikeMe online platform for patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), we required a patient-reported assessment of functional status that was easy to complete and identified disability in...

    Authors: Paul Wicks, Timothy E Vaughan and Michael P Massagli
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:70
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  10. The aim of this study was to explore, via empirical comparison, the relationship between quality of life, as measured by the ICECAP-O capability index (a new instrument designed to measure and value quality of...

    Authors: Leah Couzner, Julie Ratcliffe and Maria Crotty
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:69
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  11. Patient recall or the application of population norms are commonly used methods to estimate (unobservable) health status prior to acute-onset illness or injury; however, both measures are potentially subject t...

    Authors: Ross Wilson, Sarah Derrett, Paul Hansen and John Langley
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:68
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  12. Sarcoidosis is a chronic disease with different phenotypic manifestations. Health-related quality of life is an important aspect in sarcoidosis, yet difficult to measure. The objective of this study was to ide...

    Authors: Julie M Bourbonnais, Subramanian Malaisamy, Bhavinkumar D Dalal, Priyan C Samarakoon, Swapna R Parikh and Lobelia Samavati
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:67
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  13. In an international, randomized Phase III trial ipilimumab demonstrated a significant overall survival benefit in previously treated advanced melanoma patients. This report summarizes health-related quality of...

    Authors: Dennis A Revicki, Alfons JM van den Eertwegh, Paul Lorigan, Celeste Lebbe, Gerald Linette, Christian H Ottensmeier, Shima Safikhani, Marianne Messina, Axel Hoos, Samuel Wagner and Srividya Kotapati
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:66
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  15. A strong consensus exists for a systematic approach to linguistic validation of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and discrete methods for assessing their psychometric properties. Despite the need for ...

    Authors: Gwerfyl Roberts, Seren Roberts, Richard Tranter, Rhiannon Whitaker, Emma Bedson, Siobhan Tranter, Delyth Prys, Heledd Owen and Yvonne Sylvestre
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:64
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  16. The study aimed to develop and test a Malay version of the Child-OIDP index, evaluate its psychometric properties and report on the prevalence of oral impacts on eight daily performances in a sample of 11–12 y...

    Authors: Zamros YM Yusof and Nasruddin Jaafar
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:63
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  17. Information on the impact of oral health on quality of life of children younger than 8 years is mostly based on parental reports, as methodological and conceptual challenges have hindered the development of re...

    Authors: Georgios Tsakos, Yvonne I Blair, Huda Yusuf, William Wright, Richard G Watt and Lorna M D Macpherson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:62
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  18. The aim of the project was to develop an instrument for the assessment of subjective quality of life specific to schizophrenic persons on the basis of patients’ views on their own life and on sound psychometri...

    Authors: Michael Franz, Michael Fritz, Bernd Gallhofer and Thorsten Meyer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:61
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  19. Acne is a very common condition and has a substantial impact on patients’ quality of life. This study was carried out to determine the impact of acne and its clinical severity on health related quality of life...

    Authors: Kameran Hassan Ismail and Khalis Bilal Mohammed-Ali
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:60
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  20. Health-related quality of life is a very important issue in children with end-stage renal disease and their family. Moreover, this can be a lifelong problem. In this study, we performed a cross-sectional inves...

    Authors: Ki-Soo Park, Min Hyun Cho, Il Soo Ha, Hee Gyung Kang, Hae Il Cheong, Young Seo Park, Yoon Jung Lee, Joo Hoon Lee and Hee Yeon Cho
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:59
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  21. This study examined the measurement properties of the Japanese version of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Hepatocellular Carcinoma-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire ...

    Authors: Naoko Mikoshiba, Ryosuke Tateishi, Makoto Tanaka, Tomoko Sakai, Jane M Blazeby, Norihiro Kokudo, Kazuhiko Koike and Keiko Kazuma
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:58
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  23. Several questionnaires have been used to measure health related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with psoriasis, few have been adapted for use in Spain; none of them was developed specifically for the Spani...

    Authors: Esteban Dauden, Enrique Herrera, Lluis Puig, José Luis Sánchez-Carazo, Jaime Toribio, Ma Teresa Caloto, Gonzalo Nocea, Montse Roset and Nuria Lara
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:56
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  24. The mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale (mini-MAC) is a well-recognised, popular measure of coping in psycho-oncology and assesses five cancer-specific coping strategies. It has been suggested that these fi...

    Authors: Alison Zucca, Sylvie D Lambert, Allison W Boyes and Julie F Pallant
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:55
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  25. The aim of this study was to translate the EORTC quality of life questionnaire for brain cancer, the QLQ-BN20, into Persian, and to evaluate its psychometric properties when used among brain cancer patients in...

    Authors: Alireza Khoshnevisan, Mir Saeed Yekaninejad, Shahab Kamali Ardakani, Amir H Pakpour, Azam Mardani and Neil K Aaronson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:54
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  26. Among people living with HIV (PLHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART), it is important to determine how quality of life (QOL) may be improved and HIV-related stigma can be lessened over time. This study assesse...

    Authors: Vu Van Tam, Mattias Larsson, Anastasia Pharris, Björn Diedrichs, Hoa Phuong Nguyen, Chuc Thi Kim Nguyen, Phuc Dang Ho, Gaetano Marrone and Anna Thorson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:53
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  27. The purpose of the study was to evaluate and compare the HRQOL of paediatric cancer in comparison to the healthy children across age groups, using PedsQLTM 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the PedsQL™ Cancer Module.

    Authors: Zainab Chaudhry and Salma Siddiqui
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:52
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  28. Fatigue is a common symptom in Stroke. Several self-report scales are available to measure this debilitating symptom but concern has been expressed about their construct validity.

    Authors: Roger J Mills, Julie F Pallant, Maria Koufali, Anil Sharma, Suzanne Day, Alan Tennant and Carolyn A Young
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:51
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  30. The purpose was, first, to evaluate changes in health-related quality of life (HRQL) in a cohort of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g.) or very preterm (< 32 weeks of gestation) children between ages 14 and...

    Authors: Gijsbert Verrips, Leonoor Brouwer, Ton Vogels, Erik Taal, Constance Drossaert, David Feeny, Marieke Verheijden and Pauline Verloove-Vanhorick
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:49
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  31. Numerous primary care innovations emphasize patient-centered processes of care. Within the context of these innovations, greater understanding is needed of the relationship between improvements in clinical end...

    Authors: Abhinav Khanna, Amber L Bush, J Michael Swint, Melissa Fleschler Peskin, Richard L Street Jr and Aanand D Naik
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:48
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  32. The purpose of this study was to expand the understanding of the burden of illness experienced by adults with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) living in different countries and treated through d...

    Authors: Meryl Brod, Betsy Pohlman, Robert Lasser and Paul Hodgkins
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:47
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  33. To assess health- related quality of life (HRQOL) with SF-12 and SF-36 and compare their abilities to predict mortality in chronic dialysis patients, after adjusting for traditional risk factors.

    Authors: Tone Brit Hortemo Østhus, Valjbona Tiric Preljevic, Leiv Sandvik, Torbjørn Leivestad, Inger Hilde Nordhus, Toril Dammen and Ingrid Os
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:46
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  34. Traditional outcome measures in peripheral arterial disease (PAD) provide insufficient information regarding patient benefit. It has therefore been suggested to add patient-reported outcome measures. The main ...

    Authors: Joakim Nordanstig, Jan Karlsson, Monica Pettersson and Christine Wann-Hansson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:45
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  35. Arrhythmias can appear with a variety of symptoms, all from vague to pronounced and handicapping symptoms. Therefore, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) concerning symptom burden are important to assess and take...

    Authors: Ulla Walfridsson, Kristofer Arestedt and Anna Stromberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:44
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  36. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized by muscle damage and progressive loss of muscle function in male children. DMD is one of the most devastating genetically linked neuromuscular diseases for wh...

    Authors: Roxanna M Bendixen, Claudia Senesac, Donovan J Lott and Krista Vandenborne
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:43
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  37. Oral and orofacial problems may cause a profound impact on children’s oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) because of symptoms associated with these conditions that may influence the physical, psycholo...

    Authors: Cristiane B Bendo, Saul M Paiva, Claudia M Viegas, Miriam P Vale and James W Varni
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:42
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  38. The Changes in Outlook Questionnaire (CiOQ) is a self-report instrument designed to measure both positive and negative changes following the experience of severely stressful events. Previous research has focus...

    Authors: Yinyin Zang, Nigel C Hunt, Tom Cox and Stephen Joseph
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:41
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  39. A linguistic validation of the Self-Assessment Goal Achievement (SAGA) questionnaire was conducted for 12 European languages, documenting that each translation adequately captures the concepts of the original ...

    Authors: Elisabeth Piault, Sameepa Doshi, Barbara A Brandt, Çolpan Angün, Christopher J Evans, Agneta Bergqvist and Jeffrey Trocio
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:40
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  40. A valid assessment of spirituality and religiousness is necessary for clinical and research purposes. We developed and assessed the validity of a French-language version of the World Health Organization Qualit...

    Authors: Olfa Mandhouj, Jean-François Etter, Delphine Courvoisier and Henri-Jean Aubin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:39
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  41. Multi attribute utility (MAU) instruments are used to include the health related quality of life (HRQoL) in economic evaluations of health programs. Comparative studies suggest different MAU instruments measur...

    Authors: Jeffrey RJ Richardson, Stuart J Peacock, Graeme Hawthorne, Angelo Iezzi, Gerald Elsworth and Neil A Day
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:38
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  42. The Psoriasis Disability Index (PDI) is a widely used instrument to measure the impact of psoriasis on patients. There has not been psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of PDI. The aim of this study ...

    Authors: Zehui He, Chuanjian Lu, Aihua Ou, Jiqian Fang, Dongmei Wang, Jingwen Deng, Zhongzhao Zhang and Jingjie Yu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:37
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  43. Sulfur mustard (SM) has been used as a chemical warfare agent since the early twentieth century. Despite the large number of studies that have investigated SM induced ocular injuries, few of those studies have...

    Authors: Gholamhosein Ghaedi, Hassan Ghasemi, Batool Mousavi, Mohammad Reza Soroush, Parvin Rahnama, Farhad Jafari, Siamak Afshin-Majd, Maryam Sadeghi Naeeni and Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:36
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  44. This study was undertaken to estimate utility values for alternative treatment intervals for long acting antipsychotic intramuscular injections for the treatment of schizophrenia.

    Authors: Richard H Osborne, Andrew Dalton, Judy Hertel, Rudolf Schrover and Dell Kingsford Smith
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:35
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  45. Patient-reported outcome measures are increasingly being used to compare providers. We studied whether non-response rates to post-operative questionnaires are associated with patients' characteristics and orga...

    Authors: Andrew Hutchings, Jenny Neuburger, Kirstin Grosse Frie, Nick Black and Jan van der Meulen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:34
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  46. Myocardial infarction is a major cause of death and morbidity in many countries, including China. The aim of this study was to analyse a Mandarin Chinese translation of the Cardiac Depression Scale for a hiera...

    Authors: Roger Watson, Wenru Wang, David L Hare, Chantal F Ski and David R Thompson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:33
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  47. Existing evidence for validity of the visual analog scale of the EQ-5D-3L questionnaire (EQ-VAS) is weak in Chinese-speaking respondents in Singapore. We therefore investigated the validity of the Chinese (Sin...

    Authors: Nan Luo, Sheng-Qun Cang, Hui-Min Joanne Quah, Choon-How How and Ee Guan Tay
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:32
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  48. The concept of quality of life relates to the perceptions of individuals about their mental and physical health as well as non-health related areas. The evaluation of quality of life in the context of substanc...

    Authors: Carlos Zubaran, Jonathan Emerson, Rishi Sud, Elham Zolfaghari and Katia Foresti
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:31
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  49. Although osteoarthritis (OA) often affects older persons, it has a profound effect on individuals actively employed. Despite reports of reduced productivity among workers with OA, data are limited regarding th...

    Authors: Marco daCosta DiBonaventura, Shaloo Gupta, Margaret McDonald, Alesia Sadosky, Dan Pettitt and Stuart Silverman
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:30
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