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Understanding the fundamentals of quality of life measurement.
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This article is published in Evidence-based Cardiovascular Medicine.The article was published on 1998-06-01. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quality of life (healthcare).read more
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Measurement Scales in Clinical Research of the Upper Extremity, Part 1: General Principles, Measures of General Health, Pain, and Patient Satisfaction
Marie Badalamente,Laureen Coffelt,John C. Elfar,Glenn Gaston,Warren Hammert,Jerry I. Huang,Lisa L. Lattanza,Joy C. MacDermid,Greg Merrell,David T. Netscher,Zubin J. Panthaki,Greg Rafijah,Douglas Trczinski,Brent Graham +13 more
TL;DR: Part 1 of this article reviews the general concepts of measurement instruments and describes the measurement of general health, pain, and patient satisfaction.
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Different frequencies of acupuncture treatment for chronic low back pain: an assessor-blinded pilot randomised controlled trial
J Yuan,Nithima Purepong,Ruth F. Hunter,Daniel Paul Kerr,Jongbae Park,Ian Bradbury,Suzanne McDonough +6 more
TL;DR: It was notable however that the clinically important improvement in terms of pain, functional disability, quality of life, and SWT in both groups was achieved within the first two weeks, which was maintained at one year follow-up.
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Validação do Questionário de Performance Vocal no Brasil
TL;DR: The Brazilian version of the VPQ, the Questionario de Performance Vocal - QPV, is a reliable and valid protocol, sensitive to changes, easy to use and calculate the results, and may be an important instrument to compose the speech-language pathology assessment of dysphonic patients.
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Facet joint injections for people with persistent non-specific low back pain (Facet injection study) : A feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial
David R. Ellard,Martin Underwood,Felix A. Achana,James H. L. Antrobus,Shyam Balasubramanian,Sally Brown,Melinda Cairns,James Griffin,Frances Griffiths,Kirstie L. Haywood,Charles E. Hutchinson,Ranjit Lall,Stavros Petrou,Nigel Stallard,Colin Tysall,David A. Walsh,Harbinder Sandhu +16 more
TL;DR: This feasibility study achieved consensus on the main challenges in a trial of FJIs for people with persistent non-specific low back pain, and process data illuminate some of the reasons for recruitment problems but also show that trial processes after enrolment ran smoothly.
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A multicenter experience with generic mycophenolate mofetil conversion in stable liver transplant recipients
Jong Man Kim,Choon Hyuck David Kwon,Ik Jin Yun,Kwang-Woong Lee,Hee Chul Yu,Kyung-Suk Suh,Jae-Won Joh,Baik Hwan Cho +7 more
TL;DR: Clinical experience as well as research data showed that generic mycophenolate mofetil was comparable in efficacy to the brand-name drug and conversion from brand- name MMF to generic MMF should be encouraged.
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The Sickness Impact Profile: development and final revision of a health status measure.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), a behaviorally based measure of health status, and evaluated its reliability and validity using multitrait-multimethod technique.
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Measuring health-related quality of life.
TL;DR: Patients, clinicians, and health care administrators are all keenly interested in the effects of medical interventions on HRQL, because increasing efforts exist to incorporate HRQLs as measures of the quality of care and of clinical effectiveness, and because payers are beginning to use HRQL information in reimbursement decisions.
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A measure of quality of life for clinical trials in chronic lung disease.
TL;DR: It has been shown that the questionnaire is precise, valid, and responsive and can therefore serve as a useful disease specific measure of quality of life for clinical trials.
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The measurement of dyspnea. Contents, interobserver agreement, and physiologic correlates of two new clinical indexes.
TL;DR: The results indicate that dyspnea can receive a direct clinical rating that provides important information not disclosed by customary physiologic tests.
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The Medical Outcomes Study. An application of methods for monitoring the results of medical care
Alvin R. Tarlov,John E. Ware,Sheldon Greenfield,Eugene C. Nelson,Edward B. Perrin,Michael Zubkoff +5 more
TL;DR: The Medical Outcomes Study was designed to determine whether variations in patient outcomes are explained by differences in system of care, clinician specialty, and clinicians' technical and interpersonal styles and develop more practical tools for the routine monitoring of patient outcomes in medical practice.