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... 5(page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearchThe visual analog rating scale of health- related quality of life: an examination of end-digit preferences Amir ... Analog ScaleEnd-digit preferenceHealth-Related Quality of LifeAbstractBackground: The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) has been extensively used in the valuation of health- related quality of life ... (HRQL-qp)as a "gain", and report a VAS value accordingly, with diminishing marginal value. For HRQL worse than qp,individuals consider the difference (HRQL-qp) as a "loss",and...

... extent of rater disagreement across therange of a scale we provide Bland and Altman plots [19].Power analysis was done for detecting mean differencesbetween patient and proxy ratings. A sample of ... Cella D, Levin V: Thefunctional assessment of cancer therapy (FACT) scale: Development of a brain subscale and the revalidation of thegeneral version (FACT-G) in patients with primary braintumors. ... the FACT-Br [22]. Correlation between patient- ratings and caregiver-ratings was 0.63 at baseline and 0.64 at 2 and 4 months follow-up, percentage of agreement (+/- 10 points on a scale ranging...

... theanalysis and drafted the paper. CJ, AA, MD, and KMassisted in the acquisition of data, interpretation of theanalysis, and commented on drafts of the manuscript. Allauthors read and approved ... oste-oarthritis) which were not available for the individualswithin our study. Models G1 and G2 had the same inde-pendent variables as our Model D, and G2 also includedthe variables of age and ... Chicago, Illinois: SPSS Inc36. UK BEAM Trial Team: United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) randomised trial: cost effective-ness of physical treatments for back pain in...

... WHO: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health WHO: Geneva, Switzerland; 2001. 2. Asakawa T, Koyano W, Ando T, Shibata H: Effects of functionaldecline on quality of life ... by disabilities in old age [23] and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) modelFigure 1International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) ... 2.0 Lac St-Charles, Québec, Canada,International Network of the Disability Creation Process; CanadianSociety for the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps;...

... work was supported by NSERC Canada to MS and NT. The authors thank Marc Denninger and Marcel Kaszap for software development.References1. Gandevia SC: Spinal and supraspinal factors in human ... de kinesiology, Université Laval, Québec, CanadaEmail: Martin Simoneau* - Martin.Simoneau@kin.msp.ulaval.ca; François Bégin - fbegin55@hotmail.com; Normand Teasdale* - Normand.Teasdale@kin.msp.ulaval.ca* ... probereaction time task (RT) (serving as an indicator of attentional demands) before and after threeperiods of moderate fatigue (fast walking on a treadmill). For the balance control task, the real-timedisplacement...

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... manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.AcknowledgementsFunding was provided by the Nebraska Research Initiative Grant awarded to NS and the Texas Learning and Computational ... responsible for changes in the nonlinear structure of gait, and may lead to a betterunderstanding of why the nonlinear gait pattern is altered in pathological populations.Competing interestsThe author(s) ... horizontal actuator, performed the data collections and processing, and drafted the manuscript. NS partici-pated in the experimental design, interpretation of theresults, and drafting of the manuscript....