... adults and are associated with disability, diminished qualityof life, and increased costs for health care and long-term care Today, about 80% of older adults have at least one chronic condition, and ... cognitive health (including those of caregivers andhealth care providers) and developing and implementing measures to assess and monitor the impact of cognitive impairment to guide national and state ... state strategies • romote healthand preserve health- related qualityoflife P for older adults within health care and other systems P romoting the broader use of preventive services by older...
... of illness A randomized controlled trial of sedation protocols with patient follow up and assessment of memories, PTSD, and health- related qualityoflife would be a more robust design with which ... impaired qualityoflifeof many survivors Future research, particularly interventional trials, is required if we are effectively to understand, prevent, and treat the negative sequelae of critical ... that symptoms of PTSD can be reduced by using a protocol to limit sedation 146 The study by Granja and associates [1] demonstrates that ICU memories and health- related qualityoflife can be assessed...
... in health related qualityoflife scores predict survival in stages III and IV colorectal cancer? HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2011 9:62 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... value ofqualityoflife scores for time to progression (TTP) and overall survival time (OS) in advanced breast cancer Eur J Cancer 2003, 39:1370-1376 Braun et al HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes ... prognostic value ofqualityoflife scores during treatment for oesophageal cancer Gut 2001, 49:227-230 16 Camilleri-Brennan J, Steele RJ: Prospective analysis ofqualityoflifeandsurvival following...
... degree of dyspnoea [6] There is also evidence for an association with healthrelated qualityoflife (HRQL) in terms of disease-specific [7,8] or generic measures [7,9] Intuitively, self-reported health- status ... Markstrom A, Sundell K, Lysdahl M, Andersson G, Schedin U, Klang B: Quality- of- life evaluation of patients with neuromuscular and skeletal diseases treated with noninvasive and invasive home mechanical ... Pedersen OF, Peslin R, Yernault JC: Lung volumes and forced ventilatory flows Report Working Party Standardization of Lung Function Tests, European Community for Steel and Coal Official Statement of...
... 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 Crit Care Med 2000, 28:3599-3605 ... status 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 ... selection of trials investigating cost per quality- adjusted life year for a variety ofinterventions in the critically ill and in non-ICU patients Critically ill Costs per quality- adjusted life year...
... 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 ... assess any new or ongoing AEs Health- related qualityoflifeand medication satisfaction measures As secondary objectives of this study, caregiver-reported HRQL and medication satisfaction were ... 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...
... editing and support Conflict of interest The study was sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company AS and RE are employees and shareholders of Eli Lilly and Company RE and TW were employees of Eli Lilly and ... AW, Chan KS, Prasad S, Poole L (2007) A global measure of child health- related qualityof life: reliability and validity of the child healthand illness profile-child edition (CHIP-CE) global score ... Bastiaens 2008) Healthrelated QoL is a multidimensional concept that reflects the subjective physical, social, and psychological aspects ofhealthand is distinct from symptoms of the disorder and objective...
... income, work status, place of residence and number of chronic conditions component ofqualityof life, and smokers showed poorer qualityoflife than never-smokers The results of the present study ... these behaviors and different aspects ofqualityof life, especially among the elderly The few studies investigating the association between health- related qualityoflife (HRQoL) and healthrelated ... risk of disease, increases life expectancy of those with illnesses and improves qualityof life, though the harmful effects of smoking lasts for a certain amount of time depending on the health...
... reliability and validity of health- related qualityoflife questionnaire among adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda: cross-sectional study HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2010 ... district, Uganda AIDS Care 2004, 16(1):81-94 EuroQol: –a new facility for the measurement of health- related qualityoflife The EuroQol Group Health Policy 1990, 16(3):199-208 Uganda Ministry of Health: ... Page of Figure Health- related qualitylife scores among adult tuberculosis patients in Kampala Uganda, 2007-2008 Whiskers are standard errors (SEs) whereas bars represent health- related quality of...
... 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...
... indicator of general qualityoflifeand women’s qualityoflife as compared to the UK and the US Canada does not perform well in relation to the values on a number of indicators of Denmark and Sweden ... snapshots of the effects of increasing privatisation ofhealthand home care on the qualityoflifeof women in each section of Canada [75] It concluded that increasing privatisation ofhealth care, ... by Medicare and Medicaid Conclusion: the welfare state and women’s qualityoflife The findings concerning women’s qualityoflife in Canada are consistent with the analysis of Fast and Keating’s...
... 46, 57–66 19 Mokhtari F and Ghasemi N (2011) Comparison of elderly qualityoflifeand mental health living in nursing homes and members of retired of Shiraz city Salmand: Iranian J Ageing 5, ... Cross-cultural qualityoflife assessment at the end oflife Gerontologist 42, 81–85 26 Schwarz S, Volzke H, Alte D, Schwahn C, Grabe HJ, Hoffmann W et al (2007) Menopause and determinates ofqualityoflife ... M and Montazeri A (2008) Determinants of health- related qualityoflife in elderly in Tehran, Iran BMC Public Health 8, 323 30 Tsai SY, Chi LY, Lee LS and Chou P (2004) Healthrelated quality of...
... initial endowments, and µf is a vector of family-level and individual level constraints, µc is a set of constraints at the community-level, and z and p are the qualityand price of all available ... severity of illness may confound the estimated relationship between quality received andhealth outcomes Consequently, we estimate the reduced-form determinants ofhealth that relate measures ofhealth ... outcome in these price of available providers, the type and severity of illness, and budget constraints Individuals are not randomly assigned quality, and those that choose a high quality care provider...
... feeling of worth, sense of reliability and guidance which has contributed to qualityoflifeof the elderly in the sub region Also of concern is the increasing record from the central, south and ... (Fajemilehin, 2001) Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the qualityoflife against the back ground of the health behaviours and traditional life style practices of the elderly persons in Osun ... indicated a sign of lack of awareness and interest in the use of such health care facilities Hence, awareness in terms of its type, cost, level of attention and proximity had influence on health behaviour...
... districts of Senegal Supervision andquality Approaches to improvingqualityof care have usually focused on training providers and upgrading infrastructure and equipment [4], and better supervision of ... of service quality by evaluating the following indicators: • Availability andqualityof infrastructure and equipment; Human resources and services management (organization and availability of ... included in analysis by area of service delivery and by type Region of Thiès Region of Louga Area of service delivery Health posts Health centers Total Health posts Health centers Total Total Infrastructure...
... expectations, and women wishing to access PMTCT services will be victims of that stigma, too Perceived role in improvingqualityof care Most of the health workers agreed that the qualityof care could ... (which is often not offered anyway) by group counselling, to use peer counsellors to provide counselling and follow-up of care (reducing the burden for health workers andimproving the qualityof counselling) ... due to incomplete knowledge and understanding among health workers about HIV, and about the routes and ease of transmission "Health workers not have in-depth understanding about this disease,...
... measuring health- related qualityoflife in children and adolescents; HRQL: Health- Related Qualityof Life; CBCL: Child Behaviour Checklist; SDQ: Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire; SD: Standard ... Assessing health status andqualityoflife instruments: attributes and review criteria Qual Life Res 2002, 11:193-205 Gandek B, Ware J: Methods for validating and norming translations ofhealth ... HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2009, 7:35 Background Measurement ofhealth related qualityoflife (HRQL) started in the 70's as a complement...
... Correlates of health- related qualityoflife in overweight and obese adults with type diabetes Obesity 2006, 14:870-83 Bize R, Johnson JA, Plotnikoff RC: Physical activity level and health- related quality ... Institutes ofHealth References 10 11 12 13 14 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention andHealth Promotion Health- Related QualityofLife [http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/ ... Physical Activity and Feelings of Energy and Fatigue:Epidemolgical Evidence Sports Medicine 2006, 36:767-80 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2009,...
... arthritis, and both frailty and the SF-36, interactions between gender and frailty status as well as arthritis and Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes ... provides standardized regression coefficients for the effect of frailty category on the subscales and summary scales of the SF-36 qualityoflife measure On all subscales and both the physical and mental ... associated with diminished health related qualityoflife in a large sample of Mexican American older adults Future research on health related qualityoflife in this population should consider...