Ingela Wiklund

TL;DR: The aim of the present study was to develop a short validated patient-completed questionnaire, the COPD Assessment Test (CAT), assessing the impact of COPD on health status, which has good measurement properties, is sensitive to differences in state and should provide a valid, reliable and standardised measure of COPd health status with worldwide relevance.

TL;DR: The GSRS is a useful patient-rated symptom scale for evaluating the outcomes of treatment for GERD and has good reliability and construct validity and the GSRS scales discriminate by GERD symptom severity and are responsive to treatment.

TL;DR: Both 10 mg and 20 mg of omeprazole gave effective relief of symptoms, although 20 mg gave superior healing in patients with oesophagitis, according to a double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled comparison.

TL;DR: A new strategy for the assessment of QoL in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms is presented, based on a battery of questionnaires covering both general and specific aspects of life, and indicates that these measures may give reliable and clinically valid information when used for evaluation of medical treatments in upper gastrointestinal disease.

TL;DR: The quality of life assessed by the Nottingham Health Profile Questionnaire was compared in a group of women suffering from urinary incontinence and an age-matched representative sample of the total population and there were no significant differences between the two groups of women in occurrence of other illnesses or social characteristics.