... QualityofLifeand Technology Assessment http://www.nap.edu/catalog/1424.html CONTENTS ix Contents Conceptual Background and Issues in QualityofLife Kathleen N Lohr The Use of Quality- of- Life ... Assessing Qualityof Life: Measures and Utility J Ivan Williams and Sharon Wood-Dauphinee Three Sources of Descriptive Information for Quality- of- Life Measures, Ten Review Forms for Quality- of- Life ... attribution QualityofLifeand Technology Assessment http://www.nap.edu/catalog/1424.html CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND AND ISSUES IN QUALITYOFLIFE 1 Conceptual Background and Issues in QualityofLife Kathleen...
... of one standard deviation on "care dependency" is associated with a statistically significant decrease of 0.15 standard Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife ... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2009, 7:72 http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/72 Figure 2final model of predicting parental HRQOL of caregivers of ... file Predictive model of Health-related Qualityoflife in parents of chronically ill children: standardized Regression Coefficients and Percentage of Explained Variance of the Modified Model...
... Doubova Dubova et al.: Qualityofcareand healthrelated qualityoflifeof climacteric stage women cared for in family medicine clinics in Mexico Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2010 8:20 ... Dubova et al Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2010, 8:20 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/20 Page 10 of 12 Table Relationship between health-related qualityoflifeandqualityofcare Coefficient ... Design and validation of indicators to measure the qualityofcare Page of 12 that climacteric stage women receive in family medicine clinics II Assessment of the qualityofcareandof its association...
... severity A cut-off value of 10 has been Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2009, 7:19 reported to have a sensitivity of 0.88 and a specificity of 0.88 ... oflife Diabetes Care 2004, 27:1066-1070 Rubin RR, Peyrot M: Qualityoflifeand diabetes Diabetes Metab Res Rev 1999, 15:205-218 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health andQuality ... Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2009, 7:19 Introduction Diabetes represents one of the major challenges for health care systems all over the world while consuming a lot of health care resources...
... andqualityoflifeof children after admission to an intensive care unit Intensive Care Med 2003, 29:795-800 Ambuehl J, Karrer A, Meer A, Riedel T, Schibler A: Qualityoflifeof survivors of ... QualityofLife Questionnaire (TAPQOL-PF) for children aged to years of age, the TNO-AZL Children's Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:21 Quality ... survival and state of health after paediatric intensive care Arch Dis Child 1995, 73:196-201 Jayshree M, Singhi SC, Malhi P: Follow up of survival andqualityoflife in children after intensive care...
... period of years, starting in 2003 The aim is to assess the status of OA careand to search for possibilities to improve care as well as patients' qualityoflife by tailored interventions A randomly ... of comorbidities or disease duration did not differ significantly Table displays the characteristics of the study sample separated by localization of OA QualityofLife Regarding the impact of ... the destruction of the cartilage) and psychological differences (e.g perception of pain) we hypothesized that men and women differ regarding many aspects of QoL and received care This hypothesis...
... Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2011, 9:7 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/7 pre-ESRD nephrology consultations andqualityof therapeutic care has been suggested [11,12] Likewise, qualityof pre-ESRD ... Boini et al Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2011, 9:7 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/7 Page of Table Impact ofqualityof therapeutic practices and pre-dialysis nephrology care on HRQoL (N ... Page of 29 Mentari EK, DeOreo PB, O’Connor AS, Love TE, Ricanati ES, Sehgal AR: Changes in Medicare reimbursement and patient-nephrologist visits, qualityof care, and health-related qualityof life...
... Health-related qualityoflife before planned admission to intensive care: memory over three and six months Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2010 8:103 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... A: Qualityoflife after intensive care evaluation with EQ-5D questionnaire Intensive Care Med 2002, 28:898-907 Girard TD, Pandharipande PP, Ely EW: Delirium in the intensive care unit Crit Care ... DM: Qualityof live in adult survivors of critical illness: a systematic review of the literature Intensive Care Med 2005, 31:611-620 Grady KL: Beyond morbidity and mortality: qualityof life...
... domains of caregiving and caregiver psychic distress on the one hand, and Page of 11 caregiver’s/patient’s socio-demographic characteristics, clinical features and indices ofqualityof care, on ... socio-demographic and clinical characteristics [6], there is a paucity of studies on the relationship with indices ofqualityofcare (such as patients’ met/unmet needs for care, service satisfaction andquality ... because of the caregiving role results in strain for the family caregiver The impact of caregiving on the caregiver depends on the characteristics of the patient, the caregiver, their relationship and...
... format of the QualityofLife Index (five dimensions of health (ability to work, self care, energy level, social support, anxiety/depression), each of which is described in one of three levels of ... effect of time of onset on community preferences for health states: an exploratory study Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2011 9:6 Page of Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take ... discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public Qual Life Res 2003, 12:599-607 Wittenberg Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2011, 9:6 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/6...
... determinant ofqualityof life: Evidence from the McGill QualityofLife Questionnaire Cancer 1996, 77:01 Peltzer K, Phaswana-Mafuya N: Health-related qualityoflife in a sample of HIV-infected ... appraisal andqualityoflifeQualityofLife Research 1992, 1:155-165 69 Cohen SR, Boston P, Mount BM, Porterfield P: Changes in qualityoflife following admission to palliative care units ... was developed by Byock and colleagues to measure adaptation to, and integration of, physical and functional decline, as well as attainment of tasks oflife completion andlife closure in advanced...
... for the assessment of survival, but 50% were lost to follow up for the assessment ofqualityoflife at years Why did we lose so many patients? In our assessment ofqualityoflife we used telephone ... Kilonzo M, Vale L: Qualityoflife before and after intensive care Anaesthesia 2005, 60:332-339 Granja C, Teixeira-Pinto A, Costa-Pereira A: Qualityoflife after intensive care- evaluation with ... Haraldsen P, Andersson R: Qualityof life, morbidity, and mortality after surgical intensive care: a follow-up study of patients treated for abdominal sepsis in the surgical intensive care unit...
... http://ccforum.com/content/10/5/R147 Figure Subdimensions of health-related qualityoflife Subdimensions of health-related qualityoflife were measured with the Medical Outcomes Study 3 6life Item Short Form (SF-36; physical ... morbidity, andqualityoflife after discharge from intensive care Crit Care Med 2000, 28:2293-2299 Pedersen SS, Middel B, Larsen ML: The role of personality variables and social support in distress and ... the cutoff score of 35 points, indicating an increased risk for development of post-traumatic stress disorder, and 'low-scoring patients' with a PTSS-10 below the cutoff score, and age- and gender-matched...
... Heyland DK, Hopman W, Coo H, Tranmer J, McColl MA: Longterm health related qualityoflife in survivors of sepsis Short Form 36: a valid and reliable measure of health-related qualityoflife ... patient and next of kin was obtained To avoid an imbalance between APC and standard care patients from each site, each participating site enrolled in blocks of three APC and six standard care patients ... about qualityof life? Intensive Care Med 2003, 29:1286-1293 15 Rogers J, Ridley S, Chrispin P, Scotton H, Lloyd D: Reliability of the next of kin's estimates of critically ill patient's quality of...
... intensivist in charge without any explicit standard ofcare beyond the normal institutional standards and guidelines Neither careof the patients nor endof -life decision making was influenced by the ... and perceived qualityoflife in long-term survivors of out -of- hospital cardiac arrest Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2007, 51:206-209 Graf J, Graf C, Janssens U: Analysis of resource use and costgenerating ... of the year 2002, German Ministry of Health [22]) Cost-utility descriptions were generated via an HSI adjustment oflife years gained The number of QALYs gained is the product of the number of...
... Sjöberg F: Role of preexisting disease in patients' perceptions of health-related qualityoflife after intensive care Crit Care Med 2005, 33:1557-1564 Wiley J, Camacho T: Lifestyle and future health; ... Survival, morbidity, andqualityoflife after discharge from intensive care Crit Care Med 2000, 28:2293-2299 Graf J, Koch M, Dujardin R, Kersten A, Janssens U: Health-related qualityoflife before, ... changes in sleep quality after a critical care period Difficulties in falling asleep and the qualityof sleep were affected and remained altered at 12 months in 38% and 20% of former ICU patients,...
... review of the literature J Burn Care Rehabil 1998, 19:230-240 Munster AM: Measurement ofqualityof life: then and now Burns 1999, 25:25-28 Anzarut A, Chen M, Shankowsky H, Tredget EE: Qualityoflife ... Pavoni et al Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010, 18:24 ter understand the impact of morbidity and consequences of thermal injury and to evaluate clinical ... facility for the measurement of health related qualityoflife Health Policy 1990, 16:199-208 Granja C, Teixera-Pinto A, Costa-Pereira A: Qualityoflife after intensive care- evaluation with EQ-5D...
... University of Michigan, University of Arizona, the University of California - Los Angeles, the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina, the University of Utah, and the University of Washington ... working papers: “How Does Financial Accounting Quality Improve Investment Efficiency? ” by Biddle and Hilary, and “Financial Reporting Qualityand Investment Efficiency by Verdi We appreciate comments ... Beatty, Liao and Weber, 2008; Francis and Martin, 2008; Hope and Thomas, 2008; McNichols and Stubben, 2008) Documenting a relation between financial reporting qualityand investment efficiency...
... stress the importance of caregivers as change agents of the child, in turn, children are reciprocally change agents of the caregiver andof family life in general Caregivers of children in the Ritalin ... Eiser C, Morse R: A review of measures ofqualityoflife for children with chronic illness Arch Dis Child 2001, 84:205-211 Connolly MA, Johnson JA: Measuring qualityoflife in pediatric patients ... decrease in the number of missed days from work for caregivers and in the number of subjects requiring extra hours for tutoring, nursing, and home healthcare The number of subject visits to the...