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  1. The purpose of the current study was to validate the US English Patient Perception of Study Medication (PPSM) questionnaire, which measures patient satisfaction with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) treatmen...

    Authors: Libby Black, Alyson Grove and Betsy Morrill
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:55
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  2. Sleep disturbances are a common and bothersome symptom of fibromyalgia (FM). This study reports psychometric properties of a single-item scale to assess sleep quality among individuals with FM.

    Authors: Joseph C Cappelleri, Andrew G Bushmakin, Anne M McDermott, Alesia B Sadosky, Charles D Petrie and Susan Martin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:54
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  3. The literature on changes in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in weight loss studies is inconsistent, and few studies use more than one type of measure. The purpose of the current study was to compare on...

    Authors: Ronette L Kolotkin, Josephine M Norquist, Ross D Crosby, Shailaja Suryawanshi, Pedro J Teixeira, Steven B Heymsfield, Ngozi Erondu and Allison M Nguyen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:53
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  5. Patients' health related quality of life (HRQoL) has rarely been systematically monitored in general practice. Electronic tools and practice training might facilitate the routine application of HRQoL questionn...

    Authors: Anja Rogausch, Jörg Sigle, Anna Seibert, Sabine Thüring, Michael M Kochen and Wolfgang Himmel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:51
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  6. To study health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a large sample of Australian chronically-ill patients and investigate the impact of characteristics of patients and their general practices on their HRQOL and...

    Authors: Upali W Jayasinghe, Judith Proudfoot, Christopher A Barton, Cheryl Amoroso, Chris Holton, Gawaine Powell Davies, Justin Beilby and Mark F Harris
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:50
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  7. Autogenous Iliac Crest Bone Graft (ICBG) has been the "gold standard" for spinal fusion. However, bone graft harvest may lead to complications, such as chronic pain, numbness, and poor cosmesis. The long-term ...

    Authors: Carolyn E Schwartz, Julia F Martha, Paulette Kowalski, David A Wang, Rita Bode, Ling Li and David H Kim
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:49
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  8. Older adults may find it problematic to attend hospital appointments due to the difficulty associated with travelling to, within and from a hospital facility for the purpose of a face-to-face assessment. This ...

    Authors: Steven McPhail, Paul Lane, Trevor Russell, Sandra G Brauer, Steven Urry, Jan Jasiewicz, Peter Condie and Terry Haines
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:48
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  9. There is limited data examining the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and health related quality of life (HRQOL) in healthy young adults. We examined the association between CRF and the HRQOL...

    Authors: Robert A Sloan, Susumu S Sawada, Corby K Martin, Timothy Church and Steven N Blair
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:47
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  10. To assess the health related quality of life of patients with primary Sjögren's Syndrome (PSS) in a large US sample.

    Authors: Barbara Segal, Simon J Bowman, Philip C Fox, Frederick B Vivino, Nandita Murukutla, Jeff Brodscholl, Sarika Ogale and Lachy McLean
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:46
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  11. Treatment objectives for dyspepsia include improvements in both symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). There is a lack of disease-specific instruments measuring HRQoL in South East Asian dyspeptics.

    Authors: Sanjiv Mahadeva, Hwee-Lin Wee, Khean-Lee Goh and Julian Thumboo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:45
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  12. The Locomotor Capabilities Index (LCI) is a validated measure of lower-limb amputees' ability to perform activities with prosthesis. We have developed the LCI Swedish version and evaluated its validity and rel...

    Authors: Brita Larsson, Anton Johannesson, Ingemar H Andersson and Isam Atroshi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:44
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  13. The need to evaluate the impact of oral health has led to the development of instruments for measuring oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL). One such instrument is the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ1...

    Authors: Cíntia S Torres, Saul M Paiva, Miriam P Vale, Isabela A Pordeus, Maria L Ramos-Jorge, Ana C Oliveira and Paul J Allison
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:43
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  14. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a common screening instrument excluding somatic symptoms of depression and anxiety, but previous studies have reported inconsistencies of its factor structur...

    Authors: Tomomi Matsudaira, Hiromi Igarashi, Hiroyoshi Kikuchi, Rikihachiro Kano, Hiroshi Mitoma, Kiyoshi Ohuchi and Toshinori Kitamura
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:42
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  15. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) proposes three main health outcomes, Impairment (I), Activity Limitation (A) and Participation Restriction (P), but good measures of...

    Authors: Beth Pollard, Diane Dixon, Paul Dieppe and Marie Johnston
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:41
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  16. Multi-attribute utility measures are preference-based health-related quality of life measures that have been developed to inform economic evaluations of health care interventions. The objective of this study w...

    Authors: Stavros Petrou, Jane Morrell and Helen Spiby
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:40
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  17. The aim of this study was to verify the effectiveness and efficacy of saving time and reducing burden for patients, nurses, and even occupational therapists through computer adaptive testing (CAT).

    Authors: Tsair-Wei Chien, Hing-Man Wu, Weng-Chung Wang, Roberto Vasquez Castillo and Willy Chou
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:39
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  18. A critique of Hankins, M: 'How discriminating are discriminative instruments?' Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:36.

    Authors: Berend Terluin, Dirk L Knol, Caroline B Terwee and Henrica CW de Vet
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:38
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  19. To assess the internal construct validity of the Perceived Impact of Problem Profile (PIPP), a patient based outcome measure based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF...

    Authors: Julie F Pallant, Anne-Maree Keenan, Roseanne Misajon, Philip G Conaghan and Alan Tennant
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:37
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  20. The 14-item Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) Version 1.4 is a reliable and valid instrument to assess patients' satisfaction with medication, providing scores on four scales – side ef...

    Authors: Murtuza Bharmal, Krista Payne, Mark J Atkinson, Marie-Pierre Desrosiers, Donald E Morisky and Eric Gemmen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:36
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  21. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) outcome measures are complex and for further application in clinical practice and health service research the meaning of their scorings should be studied in depth. The aim...

    Authors: Vicky Serra-Sutton, Montse Ferrer, Luis Rajmil, Cristian Tebé, Marie-Claude Simeoni and Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:35
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  22. Retraction of Revicki DA, Rentz AM, Luo MP, Wong RL, Doward LC, McKenna SP: Psychometric characteristics of the ankylosing spondylitis quality of life questionnaire, short form 36 health survey, and functional...

    Authors: Dennis A Revicki, Anne M Rentz, Michelle P Luo, Robert L Wong, Lynda C Doward and Stephen P McKenna
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:34
    Content type: Retraction Note Published on:

    The original article was published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:6

  23. Stroke-specific outcome measures and descriptive measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are unsuitable for informing decision-makers of the broader consequences of increasing or decreasing funding ...

    Authors: Duncan Mortimer, Leonie Segal and Jonathan Sturm
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:33
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  24. Caring for a child with a chronic condition, such as sickle cell disease, can have a significant impact on parents and families. In order to provide comprehensive care and support to these families, psychometr...

    Authors: Julie A Panepinto, Raymond G Hoffmann and Nicholas M Pajewski
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:32
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  25. Violence is frequent towards nurses in forensic mental health hospitals. Implications of this high risk environment have not been systematically explored. This paper explores occurrence of symptoms on post tra...

    Authors: Christian Lauvrud, Kåre Nonstad and Tom Palmstierna
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:31
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  26. The 'Perception of Anti-Coagulant Treatment Questionnaire' (PACT-Q) was developed to assess patients' expectations of, and satisfaction with their anticoagulant treatment. This questionnaire needs to be finali...

    Authors: MH Prins, I Guillemin, H Gilet, S Gabriel, B Essers, G Raskob and SR Kahn
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:30
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  27. Effective treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) relies on a correct classification of so called 'fluctuating active' versus 'passive' patients. For successful tre...

    Authors: Korine Scheeres, Hans Knoop, van der Jos Meer and Gijs Bleijenberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:29
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  28. The relevance of persistent cognitive deficits to the pathogenesis and prognosis of bipolar disorders (BD) is understudied, and its translation into clinical practice has been limited by the absence of brief m...

    Authors: Georgina Guilera, Oscar Pino, Juana Gómez-Benito, J Emilio Rojo, Eduard Vieta, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Nuria Segarra, Anabel Martínez-Arán, Manuel Franco, Manuel J Cuesta, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Miguel Bernardo, Scot E Purdon, Teresa Díez and Javier Rejas
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:28
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  30. Patient centred outcomes, such as health status, are important in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Extensive questionnaires on health status have good measurement properties, but are not suitable ...

    Authors: Björn Ställberg, Mika Nokela, Per-Olof Ehrs, Paul Hjemdal and Eva Wikström Jonsson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:26
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  31. The health-related quality of life (HRQL) is an important indicator of the burden of musculoskeletal disease. The Medical Outcome Study Short-Term 36 (SF-36) is the most used tool that evaluates HRQL as a subj...

    Authors: Fausto Salaffi, Marina Carotti, Stefania Gasparini, Michele Intorcia and Walter Grassi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:25
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  32. In 2003, a 74-item quality-of-life (QOL) scale for Chinese benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patients (BPH-QLS) was developed. Although the scale displayed good reliability and validity, the time required to ...

    Authors: Yanfang Guo, Jingcheng Shi, Ming Hu and Zhenqiu Sun
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:24
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  33. The aim of the study was to evaluate factors influencing quality of life (QOL) in Moroccan postmenopausal women with osteoporotic vertebral fracture assessed by the Arabic version of ECOS 16 questionnaire.

    Authors: Fatima E Abourazzak, Fadoua Allali, Samira Rostom, Ihsane Hmamouchi, Linda Ichchou, Laila El Mansouri, Loubna Bennani, Hamza Khazzani, Redouane Abouqal and Najia Hajjaj-Hassouni
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:23
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  34. The objectives of this study were to test the factor structure and internal consistency of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Subjective Vitality Scale (VS) in elderly French people, and...

    Authors: Mareï Salama-Younes, Ali Montazeri, Amany Ismaïl and Charles Roncin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:22
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  35. Influenza is among the most common infectious diseases. The main protection against influenza is vaccination. A self-administered questionnaire was developed and validated for use in clinical trials to assess ...

    Authors: Catherine Chevat, Muriel Viala-Danten, Carla Dias-Barbosa and Van Hung Nguyen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:21
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  36. Children with functional constipation report impaired Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in relation to physical complaints and long duration of symptoms. In about one third of children with constipation, ...

    Authors: Marloes EJ Bongers, Marc A Benninga, Heleen Maurice-Stam and Martha A Grootenhuis
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:20
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  37. Patients with type 2 diabetes are likely to have comorbid conditions which represent a high burden for patients and a challenge for primary care physicians. The aim of this cross-sectional survey was to assess...

    Authors: Antje Miksch, Katja Hermann, Andreas Rölz, Stefanie Joos, Joachim Szecsenyi, Dominik Ose and Thomas Rosemann
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:19
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  38. Co-morbidity is a common phenomenon in the elderly and is considered to be a major threat to quality of life (QOL). Knowledge of co-existing conditions or patient characteristics that lead to an increased QOL ...

    Authors: Ruth MA van Nispen, Michiel R de Boer, Janneke GJ Hoeijmakers, Peter J Ringens and Ger HMB van Rens
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:18
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  39. To examine the effects of a 6 month lifestyle intervention on quality of life, depression, self-efficacy and eating behavior changes in overweight and obese endometrial cancer survivors.

    Authors: Vivian E von Gruenigen, Heidi E Gibbons, Mary Beth Kavanagh, Jeffrey W Janata, Edith Lerner and Kerry S Courneya
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:17
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  40. We have previously reported on the development of a cancer-specific screening instrument for anxiety and depression (PSSCAN). No information on cut-off scores or their meaning for diagnosis was available when ...

    Authors: Wolfgang Linden, A Andrea Vodermaier, Regina McKenzie, Maria C Barroetavena, Dahyun Yi and Richard Doll
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:16
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  41. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) was developed to meet demand for instruments to measure mental well-being. It comprises 14 positively phrased Likert-style items and fulfils classic crite...

    Authors: Sarah Stewart-Brown, Alan Tennant, Ruth Tennant, Stephen Platt, Jane Parkinson and Scott Weich
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:15
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  43. Previous studies demonstrate that tolterodine extended release (ER) significantly improves urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) episodes. Instruments that measure patient-reported outcomes (PROs) provide additio...

    Authors: Philip EV Van Kerrebroeck, Con J Kelleher, Karin S Coyne, Zoe Kopp, Marina Brodsky and Joseph T Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:13
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  45. The EQ-5D is a generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measure that is used for the purpose of economic evaluations of health interventions. Therefore, it has to be responsive to meaningful changes in h...

    Authors: Merel L Kimman, Carmen D Dirksen, Philippe Lambin and Liesbeth J Boersma
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:11
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  47. The side effects and burden of anticoagulant treatments may contribute to poor compliance and consequently to treatment failure. A specific questionnaire is necessary to assess patients' needs and their percep...

    Authors: Martin H Prins, Alexia Marrel, Paulo Carita, David Anderson, Marie-Germaine Bousser, Harry Crijns, Silla Consoli and Benoit Arnould
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Current research focuses on three variables in evaluating the impact of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) on daily living: severity of incontinence, distress or bother resulting from incontinence, and effect o...

    Authors: Karen M Gil, Amber M Somerville, Sara Cichowski and Jennifer L Savitski
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:8
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. Authors: Dennis A Revicki, Anne M Rentz, Michelle P Luo, Robert L Wong, Lynda C Doward and Stephen P McKenna
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7:34

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