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  1. Whenever questionnaires are used to collect data on constructs, such as functional status or health related quality of life, it is unlikely that all respondents will respond to all items. This paper examines w...

    Authors: Rebecca Holman, Cees AW Glas, Robert Lindeboom, Aeilko H Zwinderman and Rob J de Haan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:29
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  2. Most studies of men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer examine physical symptoms as predictors of Quality of Life (QOL). However, symptoms vary by treatment modality in this population, and psychosocial ...

    Authors: Elise L Lev, Lucille Sanzero Eller, Glen Gejerman, Patricia Lane, Steven V Owen, Michele White and Njoki Nganga
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:28
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  3. The 'Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life – Direct Weighting' (SEIQoL-DW) is an instrument developed to measure individual quality of life. Although this instrument has been used in numero...

    Authors: Philip Moons, Kristel Marquet, Werner Budts and Sabina De Geest
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:27
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  4. We describe and compare four different methods for estimating sample size and power, when the primary outcome of the study is a Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) measure. These methods are: 1. assuming a ...

    Authors: Stephen J Walters
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:26
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  6. Previous investigations suggest an important role of social support in the outcomes of patients treated for ischemic heart disease. The ENRICHD Social Support Instrument (ESSI) is a 7-item self-report survey t...

    Authors: Joseph Vaglio Jr, Mark Conard, Walker S Poston, James O'Keefe, C Keith Haddock, John House and John A Spertus
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:24
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  7. The objective is to compare the performance of the MHI-5 and GHQ-12, both measures of general mental health. Therefore, we studied the relationship of the GHQ-12 and MHI-5 with sociodemographic characteristics...

    Authors: Nancy Hoeymans, Anna A Garssen, Gert P Westert and Peter FM Verhaak
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:23
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  8. Anticoagulation can reduce quality of life, and different models of anticoagulation management might have different impacts on satisfaction with this component of medical care. Yet, to our knowledge, there are...

    Authors: Greg Samsa, David B Matchar, Rowena J Dolor, Ingela Wiklund, Ewa Hedner, Gail Wygant, Ole Hauch, Cheryl Beadle Marple and Roger Edwards
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:22
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  9. Although there have been substantial medical advances that improve the outcomes following cardiac ischemic events, gender differences in the treatment and course of recovery for patients with coronary artery d...

    Authors: Colleen M Norris, William A Ghali, P Diane Galbraith, Michelle M Graham, Louise A Jensen and Merril L Knudtson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:21
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  10. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder associated with impaired patient functioning and reductions in health-related quality of life (HRQL). The present study describes the impact ...

    Authors: Christophe Sapin, Bruno Fantino, Marie-Laure Nowicki and Paul Kind
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:20
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  11. Little information is available regarding medical residents' perceptions of patients' health-related quality of life. Patients cared for by residents have been shown to receive differing patterns of care at Ve...

    Authors: Michael S Yi, Sara Luckhaupt, Joseph M Mrus and Joel Tsevat
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:19
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  12. Research suggests that patients' satisfaction with their physical functioning (SPF) is a critical component of HRQL. This study was designed to examine the extent to which perceptions of physical function and ...

    Authors: Jeffrey A Katula, W Jack Rejeski, Katie L Wickley and Michael J Berry
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:18
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  13. Hospitalization can significantly disrupt sleeping patterns. In consideration of the previous reports of insomnia and apparent widespread use of benzodiazepines and other hypnotics in hospitalized patients, we...

    Authors: Luciana Frighetto, Carlo Marra, Shakeel Bandali, Kerry Wilbur, Terryn Naumann and Peter Jewesson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:17
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  15. Research has indicated that stable individual differences in personality exist among persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders predating illness onset that are linked to symptoms and self appraised quality...

    Authors: Paul H Lysaker and Louanne W Davis
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:15
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  16. Mounting evidence for response shifts in quality of life (QOL) appraisal indicates the need to include direct measurement of the appraisal process itself as a necessary part of QOL assessment. We propose that ...

    Authors: Bruce D Rapkin and Carolyn E Schwartz
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:14
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  17. Acromegaly is a chronic disease with an important impact on patients, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). The ability to effectively measure Health Related Quality of Life is central to describing the impa...

    Authors: Xavier Badia, Susan M Webb, Luis Prieto and Nuria Lara
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:13
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  18. The objective of this study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate a general measure of patients' satisfaction with medication, the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM).

    Authors: Mark J Atkinson, Anusha Sinha, Steven L Hass, Shoshana S Colman, Ritesh N Kumar, Meryl Brod and Clayton R Rowland
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:12
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  19. The assessment of needs for cancer care is a critical step in providing high quality care and achieving cancer patients' and families' satisfaction. Instruments can be used to assess needs and guide cancer car...

    Authors: Kuang-Yi Wen and David H Gustafson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:11
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  20. In patients with very severe dementia self-rating of quality of life usually is not possible and appropriate instruments for proxy-ratings are not available. The aim of this project is to develop an instrument...

    Authors: Franz Porzsolt, Marina Kojer, Martina Schmidl, Elfriede R Greimel, Jörg Sigle, Joerg Richter and Martin Eisemann
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:10
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  21. Different generic quality of life instruments such as the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) and the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) have revealed conflicting results in patients with chronic lower limb ischa...

    Authors: Christine Wann-Hansson, Ingalill Rahm Hallberg, Bo Risberg and Rosemarie Klevsgård
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:9
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  23. In the second half of the nineties, a scientific debate about the usefulness of qualitative research in medicine began in the main medical journals as well as the amount of "qualitative" papers published on pe...

    Authors: Claudia Borreani, Guido Miccinesi, Cinzia Brunelli and Micaela Lina
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:7
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  25. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a key outcome in arthritis, but few population-based studies have examined the relationship of specific arthritic conditions, such as osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoi...

    Authors: Kelli L Dominick, Frank M Ahern, Carol H Gold and Debra A Heller
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:5
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  26. Investigations focusing and implementing on the impact of cancer on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) by the way of a mean comparison between cancer patients and subjects from the general population, are ...

    Authors: Stéphanie Boini, Serge Briançon, Francis Guillemin, Pilar Galan and Serge Hercberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:4
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  28. With the improvements in short and long term graft and patient survival after renal transplantation over the last two decades Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) is becoming an important additional outcome p...

    Authors: Wolfgang Fiebiger, Christa Mitterbauer and Rainer Oberbauer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:2
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  29. Assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQL) is important in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Despite the high prevalence of COPD in Germany, Switzerland and Austria there is ...

    Authors: Milo A Puhan, Michaela Behnke, Martin Frey, Thomas Grueter, Otto Brandli, Alfred Lichtenschopf, Gordon H Guyatt and Holger J Schunemann
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004 2:1
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  30. Few measures of health related quality of life exist for use with preschool aged children. The objective of this study was to assess reliability and validity of a new multidimensional generic measure of health...

    Authors: Anne F Klassen, Jeanne M Landgraf, Shoo K Lee, Morris Barer, Parminder Raina, Herbert WP Chan, Derek Matthew and David Brabyn
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:81
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  32. The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) Measurement System is a collection of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires targeted to the management of chronic illness. The measu...

    Authors: Kimberly Webster, David Cella and Kathleen Yost
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:79
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  33. Diabetes is a chronic medical condition accompanied by a considerable health-related quality of life (HRQL) burden. The purpose of this analysis was to use generic measures of HRQL to describe HRQL deficits as...

    Authors: Sheri L Maddigan, Sumit R Majumdar, Ellen L Toth, David H Feeny and Jeffrey A Johnson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:78
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  34. The current paper reviews data from different sources to get a closer impression on the psychometric and other methodological characteristics of the Aging Males' Symptoms (AMS) scale gathered recently. The sca...

    Authors: Isolde Daig, Lothar AJ Heinemann, Sehyun Kim, Somboon Leungwattanakij, Xavier Badia, Eric Myon, Claudia Moore, Farid Saad, Peter Potthoff and Do Minh Thai
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:77
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  35. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a serious health problem that affects more than 2 million people annually in the United States. Many of these patients develop asymptomatic DVT, but months to years later may expe...

    Authors: Stacie A Hudgens, David Cella, Carol Ann Caprini and Joseph A Caprini
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:76
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  36. Local tolerance of topical glaucoma treatment is important to achieve a good compliance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the consequences of local anti-glaucoma drug side effects on the vision-related qu...

    Authors: Jean-Philippe Nordmann, Nadia Auzanneau, Séverine Ricard and Gilles Berdeaux
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:75
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  37. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterized by profound fatigue, which substantially interferes with daily activities, and a characteristic symptom complex. Patients use a variety of prescribed and self-ad...

    Authors: James F Jones, Rosane Nisenbaum and William C Reeves
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:74
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  38. Severity and frequency of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) related symptoms are associated with impaired health-related quality of life (HRQL). This study evaluated the association between baseline heart...

    Authors: Dennis A Revicki, Marc W Zodet, Sandra Joshua-Gotlib, Douglas Levine and Joseph A Crawley
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:73
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  43. Although considerable progress has been made in the treatment of chronic kidney disease, compromised quality of life continues to be a significant problem for patients receiving hemodialysis (HD). However, in ...

    Authors: Kathy P Parker, Nancy G Kutner, Donald L Bliwise, James L Bailey and David B Rye
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:68
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  44. To validate the treatment-specific Treatment Satisfaction Survey for Intraocular Pressure (TSS-IOP).

    Authors: Mark J Atkinson, William C Stewart, Joel M Fain, Jeanette A Stewart, Ravinder Dhawan, Essy Mozaffari and Jan Lohs
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:67
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  45. The objective of this study was to translate and to test the reliability and validity of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in Iran.

    Authors: Ali Montazeri, Amir Mahmood Harirchi, Mohammad Shariati, Gholamreza Garmaroudi, Mehdi Ebadi and Abolfazl Fateh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:66
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  46. Different ideas of "good death" may influence the effectiveness of end-of-life care in patients with different ethos. This study aimed to identify the influence of believing in individual life after death on "...

    Authors: Franco Toscani, Claudia Borreani, Paolo Boeri and Guido Miccinesi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:65
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  48. Understanding health-related quality of life (HRQOL) leads to more effective and focused healthcare. America's growing health disparities makes it is increasingly necessary to understand the HRQOL of pregeriat...

    Authors: Lee Cheng, Salimah Cumber, Carlos Dumas, Ronald Winter, Kim M Nguyen and Linda Z Nieman
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:63
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  49. Symptoms of heartburn has an impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL). When a questionnaire is translated into a new language, a linguistic validation is necessary but not sufficient unless the psychome...

    Authors: Károly R Kulich, Peter Malfertheiner, Ahmed Madisch, Joachim Labenz, Ekkehard Bayerdörffer, Stephan Miehlke, Jonas Carlsson and Ingela K Wiklund
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:62
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  50. The main aim of the study was to assess the health status and health related quality of life of the personnel of the Hellenic Network of Health Promotion Hospitals. The instrument used was SF-36. An additional...

    Authors: Yannis Tountas, Panayotes TH Demakakos, Yannis Yfantopoulos, Jenny Aga, Lambrini Houliara and Elpida Pavi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003 1:61
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