S
Shunichi Fukuhara
Researcher at Kyoto University
Publications - 493
Citations - 21293
Shunichi Fukuhara is an academic researcher from Kyoto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cohort study. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 478 publications receiving 18652 citations. Previous affiliations of Shunichi Fukuhara include Jikei University School of Medicine & Fukushima Medical University.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Translation, Adaptation, and Validation of the SF-36 Health Survey for Use in Japan
TL;DR: Iterative use of qualitative and quantitative methods was very important in developing the Japanese SF-36 and the pattern of correlations between some scales and the principal components differs from that in the United States.
Journal ArticleDOI
The natural course of unruptured cerebral aneurysms in a Japanese cohort.
Akio Morita,Takaaki Kirino,Kazuo Hashi,Noriaki Aoki,Shunichi Fukuhara,Nobuo Hashimoto,Takeo Nakayama,Michi Sakai,Akira Teramoto,Shinjiro Tominari,Takashi Yoshimoto +10 more
TL;DR: It was shown that the natural course of unruptured cerebral aneurysms varies according to the size, location, and shape of theAneurysm.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
Psychometric and clinical tests of validity of the Japanese SF-36 Health Survey
TL;DR: The results of this study provide preliminary interpretation guidelines for all SF-36 scales, although caution is recommended in the interpretation of the Role-Emotional, Bodily Pain, and General Health scales pending further studies in Japan.
Journal ArticleDOI
Health-related quality of life as a predictor of mortality and hospitalization: the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).
Donna Mapes,Antonio Alberto Lopes,Sudtida Satayathum,Keith McCullough,David A. Goodkin,Francesco Locatelli,Shunichi Fukuhara,Eric W. Young,Kiyoshi Kurokawa,Akira Saito,Jürgen Bommer,Robert A. Wolfe,Philip J. Held,Friedrich K. Port +13 more
TL;DR: Lower scores for the three major components of HRQOL were strongly associated with higher risk of death and hospitalization in hemodialysis patients, independent of a series of demographic and comorbid factors.