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  1. The aim of this study was to test the internal validity of the total Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale using Rasch analysis in a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) population.

    Authors: Tanya Covic, Julie F Pallant, Philip G Conaghan and Alan Tennant
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:41
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  3. The older Hispanic population of the U.S. is growing at a tremendous rate. While ethnic-related risk and complications of diabetes are widely-acknowledged for older Hispanics, less is known about how health re...

    Authors: James E Graham, Diane G Stoebner-May, Glenn V Ostir, Soham Al Snih, M Kristen Peek, Kyriakos Markides and Kenneth J Ottenbacher
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:39
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  4. In clinical and research practice linked to prostate cancer treatment, frequent monitoring of patient health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is essential. Practical and analytic limitations of paper questionna...

    Authors: Andrew G Matthew, Kristen L Currie, Jane Irvine, Paul Ritvo, Daniel Santa Mina, Leah Jamnicky, Robert Nam and John Trachtenberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:38
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  5. The Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) assessment in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients has traditionally been carried out in a poorly standardised fashion, or via the use of non disease-specific HRQoL ques...

    Authors: Xavier Badia, Fernando Arribas, Jose Miguel Ormaetxe, Rafael Peinado and Miguel Sainz de los Terreros
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:37
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  6. the primary objective was to develop an adjective checklist, the Fatigue Quality List (FQL), aimed at assessing different perceptions of fatigue.

    Authors: Marieke F Gielissen, Hans Knoop, Petra Servaes, Joke S Kalkman, Marcus J Huibers, Stans Verhagen and Gijs Bleijenberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:36
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  7. To compare health related quality of life (HR-QoL) in patients surgically treated for secondary peritonitis to that of a healthy population. And to prospectively identify factors associated with poorer (lower)...

    Authors: Kimberly R Boer, Oddeke van Ruler, Johannes B Reitsma, Cecilia W Mahler, Brent C Opmeer, E Ascelijn Reuland, Hein G Gooszen, Peter W de Graaf, Eric J Hesselink, Michael F Gerhards, E Philip Steller, Mirjam A Sprangers, Marja A Boermeester and Corianne A De Borgie
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:35
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  9. The EQ-5D is a reliable tool for measuring Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). However, concern has been expressed that it may ignore elements of HRQoL, particularly cognition. In response to this concern,...

    Authors: Claire AG Wolfs, Carmen D Dirksen, Alfons Kessels, Daniëlle CM Willems, Frans RJ Verhey and Johan L Severens
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:33
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  11. Muscular dystrophies are chronic diseases manifesting with progressive muscle weakness leading to decreasing activities and participation. To understand the impact on daily life, it is important to determine p...

    Authors: Martha A Grootenhuis, Judith de Boone and Anneke J van der Kooi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:31
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  14. The aims of this study were to understand the lived experience and elements of quality of life as depicted by children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

    Authors: David B Nicholas, Anthony Otley, Claire Smith, Julie Avolio, Marla Munk and Anne M Griffiths
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:28
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  15. Our aim was to investigate the existence of a reciprocal relationship between patients' assessment of quality of life and their appraisal of health. If present, this relationship will interfere with the interp...

    Authors: Lars Mathisen, Marit H Andersen, Marijke Veenstra, Astrid K Wahl, Berit R Hanestad and Erik Fosse
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:27
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  16. Little is known about longitudinal associations between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and quality of life (QoL) after exposure to violence. The aims of the current study were to examine quality of life...

    Authors: Venke A Johansen, Astrid K Wahl, Dag Erik Eilertsen, Lars Weisaeth and Berit R Hanestad
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:26
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  17. Quality of life (QoL) measurements are important in evaluating cancer treatment outcomes. Factors other than cancer and its treatment may have significant effects on QoL and affect assessment of treatments. Ba...

    Authors: Karen M Gil, Heidi E Gibbons, Eric L Jenison, Michael P Hopkins and Vivian E von Gruenigen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:25
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  19. In eating disorders (EDs) treatment, outcome measurement has traditionally focused on symptom reduction rather than functioning or quality of life (QoL). Generic QoL measures lack sensitivity for some diagnose...

    Authors: Carol E Adair, Gisele C Marcoux, Brian S Cram, Carol J Ewashen, Janet Chafe, Stephanie E Cassin, Jorge Pinzon, Joanne L Gusella, Josie Geller, Yvette Scattolon, Patricia Fergusson, Lisa Styles and Krista E Brown
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:23
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  20. Little is known about the Quality of Life (QOL) in parents of children with developmental diseases as compared to other severe neurological or psychiatric disorders. Aims of the present study were: to evaluate...

    Authors: Diego Mugno, Liliana Ruta, Valentina Genitori D'Arrigo and Luigi Mazzone
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:22
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  21. Diabetes has a high burden of illness both in life years lost and in disability through related co-morbidities. Accurate assessment of the non-mortality burden requires appropriate health-related quality of li...

    Authors: Paul Glasziou, Jan Alexander, Elaine Beller and Philip Clarke
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:21
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  22. This study aimed to assess the effects of a risk-based, multifactorial fall prevention programme on health-related quality of life among the community-dwelling aged who had fallen at least once during the prev...

    Authors: Sari Vaapio, Marika Salminen, Tero Vahlberg, Noora Sjösten, Raimo Isoaho, Pertti Aarnio and Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:20
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  23. Although the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – General questionnaire (FACT-G) has been validated few studies have explored the factor structure of the instrument, in particular using non-sample depende...

    Authors: Adam B Smith, Penny Wright, Peter J Selby and Galina Velikova
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:19
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  24. The aim was to investigate HRQoL and psychosocial function among patients with carcinoid tumours, longitudinally and prospectively, and to compare HRQoL among patients with carcinoid tumours to that of the Swe...

    Authors: Camilla Fröjd, Gunnel Larsson, Claudia Lampic and Louise von Essen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:18
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  26. Co-morbidity is a powerful predictor of health care outcomes and costs, as well as an important cofounder in epidemiologic studies. The effect of co-morbidities is generally related to mortality or complicatio...

    Authors: Ulla Tuominen, Marja Blom, Johanna Hirvonen, Seppo Seitsalo, Matti Lehto, Pekka Paavolainen, Kalevi Hietanieni, Pekka Rissanen and Harri Sintonen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:16
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  28. Subjective measures involving clinician ratings or patient self-assessments have become recognised as an important tool for the assessment of health outcome. The value of a health outcome measure is usually as...

    Authors: Beth Pollard, Marie Johnston and Diane Dixon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:14
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  30. A large number of fatigue scales exist and there is no consensus on which fatigue measuring scales that are most appropriate for use in assessment of fatigue in different diseases. We aimed to describe the use...

    Authors: Niels Henrik Hjollund, Johan Hviid Andersen and Per Bech
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:12
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  31. No validated disease-specific measures are available to assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adult subjects with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Therefore, we sought to develop and validate ...

    Authors: Susan D Mathias, James B Bussel, James N George, Robert McMillan, Gary J Okano and Janet L Nichol
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:11
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  32. To determine physical and psychosocial well-being of adolescents with type 1 diabetes by self-report and parent report and to explore associations with glycemic control and other clinical and socio-demographic...

    Authors: Maartje de Wit, Henriette A Delemarre-van de Waal, Jan Alle Bokma, Krijn Haasnoot, Mieke C Houdijk, Reinoud J Gemke and Frank J Snoek
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:10
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  33. Fibromyalgia is a chronic health condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, multiple tender points on physical examination, generalized muscular aching, stiffness, fatigue, nonrestorative slee...

    Authors: James W Varni, Tasha M Burwinkle, Christine A Limbers and Ilona S Szer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:9
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  34. Successfully managing diabetes is a complex process that includes addressing issues of drug efficacy, safety and treatment satisfaction. Additionally, the combined impact of patient/disease characteristics and...

    Authors: Meryl Brod, David Cobden, Morten Lammert, Donald Bushnell and Philip Raskin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:8
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  35. The Ankylosing Spondylitis Quality of Life (ASQOL) questionnaire is a unidimensional, disease-specific measure developed in the UK and the Netherlands. This study describes its adaptation into other languages.

    Authors: Lynda C Doward, Stephen P McKenna, David M Meads, James Twiss, Dennis Revicki, Robert L Wong and Michelle P Luo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:7
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  36. Dental disease and treatment experience can negatively affect the oral health related quality of life (OHRQL) of preschool aged children and their caregivers. Currently no valid and reliable instrument is avai...

    Authors: Bhavna Talekar Pahel, R Gary Rozier and Gary D Slade
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:6
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  37. Health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) is a relevant and quantifiable outcome of care. We implemented HR-QOL assessment at all primary care visits at UCSD Owen Clinic using EQ-5D. The study aim was to estimat...

    Authors: William C Mathews and Susanne May
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:5
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  38. Quality of life (QoL) outcomes are useful in the assessment of physical, mental and social well-being and for informed healthcare decision making. However, few studies have evaluated QoL issues among Asian chi...

    Authors: Hwee-Lin Wee, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Michael Erhart and Shu-Chuen Li
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:4
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  39. The last three decades have seen a dramatic rise in the implementation of screening programmes for cancer in industrialised countries. However, in contrast to screening for infectious diseases, most cancer scr...

    Authors: John Brodersen, Stephen P McKenna, Lynda C Doward and Hanne Thorsen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:3
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  40. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurement has emerged as an important health outcome in clinical trials, clinical practice improvement strategies, and healthcare services research and evaluation. Whil...

    Authors: James W Varni, Christine A Limbers and Tasha M Burwinkle
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:2
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  41. The last decade has evidenced a dramatic increase in the development and utilization of pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures in an effort to improve pediatric patient health and well-being...

    Authors: James W Varni, Christine A Limbers and Tasha M Burwinkle
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007 5:1
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  43. Interferon-beta (IFN-β) shows beneficial effect on the course of multiple sclerosis (MS), nevertheless its route and frequency of administration and side effects might impact negatively the quality of life (Qo...

    Authors: Isabella Laura Simone, Antonia Ceccarelli, Carla Tortorella, Alessandra Bellacosa, Fabio Pellegrini, Immacolata Plasmati, Maria Fara De Caro, Mariangela Lopez, Francesco Girolamo and Paolo Livrea
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4:96
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  44. Although non-communicable and chronic disease now accounts for 47% of the global burden of disease, little is known of the everyday experiences and social aspects of disability and disablement in middle and lo...

    Authors: RoseAnne Misajon, Lenore Manderson, Julie F Pallant, Zaliha Omar, Elizabeth Bennett and Rameezan Begam Abdul Rahim
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4:95
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  45. Combining outcomes and the use of standardized effect measures such as effect size and standardized response mean across instruments allows more comprehensive meta-analyses and should avoid selection bias. How...

    Authors: Milo A Puhan, Irene Soesilo, Gordon H Guyatt and Holger J Schünemann
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4:94
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  46. To characterize ease in discussing death (EID) and its influence on health valuation in a multi-ethnic Asian population and to determine the acceptability of various descriptors of death and "pits"/"all-worst"...

    Authors: Hwee-Lin Wee, Shu-Chuen Li, Feng Xie, Xu-Hao Zhang, Nan Luo, Yin-Bun Cheung, David Machin, Kok-Yong Fong and Julian Thumboo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4:93
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  47. This paper evaluates psychometric properties of a recently developed measure focusing on the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of long-term cancer survivors, the Quality of Life in Adult Survivors scale (Q...

    Authors: Nancy E Avis, Edward Ip and Kristie Long Foley
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4:92
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  48. There is a paucity of research about health-related quality of life (HRQL) among adolescents, as studies have to a large extent focused on adults. The main aim was to provide information for future studies in ...

    Authors: Anna Jörngården, Lena Wettergen and Louise von Essen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4:91
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  50. Responsiveness, or sensitivity to clinical change, is an important consideration in selection of a health-related quality of life (HRQL) measure for trials or clinical applications. Many approaches can be used...

    Authors: Dean T Eurich, Jeffrey A Johnson, Kimberly J Reid and John A Spertus
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4:89
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