José M. Quintana

TL;DR: The SF-36 instrumento is one of the instrumentos de Calidad de Vida Relacionada con la Salud (CVRS) mas utilizados and evaluados as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The MCID for TKR is around 15 on WOMAC, while with the SF-36 of at least 10 points, which should not be considered as absolute thresholds.

TL;DR: The six-point CURB-65 score was retrospectively applied in a prospective, consecutive cohort of adult patients with a diagnosis of CAP seen in the emergency department of a 400-bed teaching hospital from March 1, 2000 to February 29, 2004 and significantly correlates with community-acquired pneumonia management key points.

TL;DR: Assessment of the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) finds no significant differences between the English and the French versions.

TL;DR: Multivariate analysis confirmed the varying importance of some socio-demographic variables and length of stay, previous admission, the timing of response to the questionnaire, and who completed the questionnaire on some aspects of patient satisfaction after hospitalization and added additional correlations for level of education and marital status.