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... this article as: Therrien et al.: The laval questionnaire: a new instrument to measure quality of life in morbid obesity. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:66. Therrien et al. Health and ... treatment effect. Perhaps the most important measurement property of a quality- of- life questionnaire used in clinical trials is its ability to reve...

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... mental health status on global quality of life as mediated by one of the life domains. 2 Sum of all indirect effects for physical and mental health status explaining global quality of life. Sawatzky ... multidimensional instruments designed to measure QOL are based on the assumption that scores pertaining to various life domains can b e com- bined so as to obta...

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... d therapy game (e.g. car racing or card playing). The mechanical-assisted training was given supplementary on customary care comprising physical and/or occupational therapy aimed at the maintenance of ... despite the fact that in the meantime no supplementary mechanical-assisted training had taken place. The 9HPT outcomes approximated the post-train- ing performance levels. Af...

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... = Often and 5 = Always). Mean scores are calculated for each of the six subscales and for the total scale, and linearly transformed to a 0-100 scale. KINDL has satisfactory reliability and validity, ... contributed to the study design, statis- tical analysis, interpretation of data and revision of the manuscript. RS contributed to statistical analysis, inter- pretation...

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... sensor was used to measure flexion of each metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint. The sensors are located inside the beige sensors sleeves, which are attached to the back of the metacarpals and proximal phalanges. ... experimentation that in the flat hand position, the musculature in the hand tends to relax. In the grip position, in contrast, the muscles must m...

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... By taking the mean or the median of each domain as a cutoff point, QOL was dichotomized as poor or good. Mean was used as a cutoff point for psychological, level of independence, social, and ... domain of the QOL instrument indicated that the two instruments had measured the same concept. Although detail validity study was not done, the above information could indicate...

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... between the amount of therapy and functional recovery in post-acute rehabilitation care. To this day, only the total time of therapy has been investigated as a potential determinant of this dose-response ... WBANs to estimate active time in therapy. According to the litera- ture, we chose a critical margin of agreement of 20% in Measure and estimates of act...

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... matrix and the MS spec- tral profiles are captured by an analyzer. By analyzing these spectral profiles, a cancer-specific finger-print can be obtained. SELDI-TOF-MS has several advantages, includ- ing ... frustrating therapeutic effects in can- cer lie in the fact that the majority of cancers are detected in their advanced stages and some have distant metas- tases, rendering...

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... are in sub-Saharan Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa, the HIV epidemic is accelerating what was already a massive TB epidemic, with the inci- dence rate of TB increasing from 146 per 100,000 in 1990 to ... the structure of National Ministries of Health, there is the opportunity for these latter institutions to play a critical role in establishing and strengthening a...

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... children ages 2–4. DataStat, a nationally-based survey administration firm located in Michigan, was contracted to administer the Cal- ifornia SCHIP statewide mail survey. DataStat mailed the PedsQL™ ... it seems reasonable to assume that they did not have prior regular access to healthcare at the time of their enroll- ment. In fact, the similarity of these findings to...

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