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Marianne Sullivan
Researcher at Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Publications - 100
Citations - 35725
Marianne Sullivan is an academic researcher from Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Quality of life. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 99 publications receiving 32704 citations. Previous affiliations of Marianne Sullivan include University of Gothenburg.
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The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology
Neil K. Aaronson,Sam H Ahmedzai,Bengt Bergman,Monika Bullinger,Ann Cull,Nicole Duez,Antonio Filiberti,Henning Flechtner,Stewart B. Fleishman,Johanna C. J. M. de Haes,Stein Kaasa,M. Klee,David Osoba,Darius Razavi,Peter B. Rofe,Simon Schraub,Kommer C. A. Sneeuw,Marianne Sullivan,Fumikazu Takeda +18 more
TL;DR: The reliability and validity of the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire were highly consistent across the three language-cultural groups studied: patients from English-speaking countries, Northern Europe, and Southern Europe.
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Effects of bariatric surgery on mortality in Swedish obese subjects.
Lars Sjöström,Kristina Narbro,C. David Sjöström,Kristjan Karason,B Larsson,Hans Wedel,Theodore Lystig,Marianne Sullivan,Claude Bouchard,Björn Carlsson,Calle Bengtsson,Sven Dahlgren,Anders Gummesson,Peter Jacobson,Jan Karlsson,Anna Karin Lindroos,Hans Lönroth,Ingmar Näslund,Torsten Olbers,Kaj Stenlöf,Jarl S Torgerson,Göran Ågren,Lena M. S. Carlsson +22 more
TL;DR: Bariatric surgery for severe obesity is associated with long-term weight loss and decreased overall mortality.
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Cross-Validation of Item Selection and Scoring for the SF-12 Health Survey in Nine Countries: Results from the IQOLA Project
Barbara Gandek,John E. Ware,Neil K. Aaronson,Giovanni Apolone,Jakob B. Bjorner,John Brazier,Monika Bullinger,Stein Kaasa,Alain Leplège,Luis Prieto,Marianne Sullivan +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the SF-12 and SF-36 summary measures in nine European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom).
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The Swedish SF-36 Health Survey: I. Evaluation of data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability and construct validity across general populations in Sweden.
TL;DR: Empirical evidence is yielded supporting the feasibility of a non-English language reproduction of the SF-36 Health Survey in Sweden and tests of scaling assumptions including hypothesized item groupings were consistently favorable across subgroups, although lower rates were noted in the oldest age group.
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Translating health status questionnaires and evaluating their quality: The IQOLA Project approach
Monika Bullinger,Jordi Alonso,Giovanni Apolone,Alain Leplège,Marianne Sullivan,Sharon Wood-Dauphinee,Barbara Gandek,Anita K. Wagner,Neil K. Aaronson,Per Bech,Shunichi Fukuhara,Stein Kaasa,John E. Ware +12 more
TL;DR: The most difficult items to translate were physical functioning items, which used examples of activities and distances that are not common outside of the United States; items that used colloquial expressions such as pep or blue; and the social functioning items.