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Quality of life: an important endpoint both in surgical practice and research.
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The role of information on functional capacity, overall well-being, and quality of life in the assessment of surgical outcomes is discussed, and the choice of endpoints beyond traditional, so-called "hard" variables in surgical studies has advantages for both surgeons and patients.About:
This article is published in Journal of Chronic Diseases.The article was published on 1987-01-01. It has received 116 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quality of life (healthcare).read more
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Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index: Development, validation and application of a new instrument
Ernst Eypasch,J. I. Williams,S. Wood-Dauphinee,B. M. Ure,C. Schmulling,Edmund Neugebauer,Hans Troidl +6 more
TL;DR: The Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index (GIQLI) is ready to be used in clinical practice and research and validated against other generic measures of quality of life.
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Quality of Life End Points in Cancer Clinical Trials: Review and Recommendations
Carol M. Moinpour,Polly Feigl,Barbara Metch,Katherine A. Hayden,Frank L. Meyskens,John Crowley +5 more
TL;DR: Policy issues that influenced the development of policies for inclusion of quality of life end points in certain Southwest Oncology Group clinical trials are reviewed and specific questionnaires with psychometric properties are recommended.
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Critical review of the international assessments of health-related quality of life.
TL;DR: This paper reviews the international adaptation and use of generic health quality of life measures over the last several years, including the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), the Medical Outcomes Short-Form 36, the EuroQol, and Dartmouth COOP Charts.
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Development and Validation of the Quality Of Life Outcome Measure (Questionnaire) for Chronic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficiency
TL;DR: Thequality of life outcome measure for chronic anterior cruciate ligament deficiency is the first subjective knee scale of its kind to be validated to measure quality of life in patients with chronic anterior Cruciateligament deficiency.
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Quality-of-life outcome following hemiarthroplasty or total shoulder arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis. A prospective, randomized trial.
Ian K. Y. Lo,Robert Litchfield,Sharon Griffin,Ken Faber,Stuart D. Patterson,Alexandra Kirkley +5 more
TL;DR: Significant improvements in disease-specific quality of life were seen two years after both the total shoulder arthroplasties and the hemiarthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis of the shoulder.
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Studies of illness in the aged. the index of adl: a standardized measure of biological and psychosocial function.
TL;DR: The Index of ADL as discussed by the authors was developed to study results of treatment and prognosis in the elderly and chronically ill. Grades of the Index summarize over-all performance in bathing, dressing, going to toilet, transferring, continence, and feeding.
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Measuring the quality of life of cancer patients: a concise QL-index for use by physicians.
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TL;DR: The aim has been to provide a new measure that can help physicians assess the relative benefits and risks of various treatments for serious illness and of supportive programs such as palliative care or hospice service.
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The sickness impact profile: validation of a health status measure.
TL;DR: Differences among the correlations obtained for each criterion measure with SIP score are discussed in terms of the need for the development of criterion measures that can be expected to differentially relate to the constructs inherent in the SIP.
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Quality of life assessment of patients in extremity sarcoma clinical trials
TL;DR: The hypothesis that limb-sparing surgery plus irradiation would provide improved quality of life when compared to amputation was not substantiated and the patients' physical status had stabilized, analysis indicated.
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