interventions optimizing health survival and improving quality of life

... adults and are associated with disability, diminished quality of 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 and health care providers) and developing and implementing measures to assess and monitor the impact of cognitive impairment to guide national and state ... state strategies •  romote health and preserve health- related quality of life P for older adults within health care and other systems P  romoting the broader use of preventive services by older...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... of illness A randomized controlled trial of sedation protocols with patient follow up and assessment of memories, PTSD, and health- related quality of life would be a more robust design with which ... impaired quality of life of 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 quality of life can be assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... in health related quality of life scores predict survival in stages III and IV colorectal cancer? Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:62 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... value of quality of life 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 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... prognostic value of quality of life scores during treatment for oesophageal cancer Gut 2001, 49:227-230 16 Camilleri-Brennan J, Steele RJ: Prospective analysis of quality of life and survival following...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... degree of dyspnoea [6] There is also evidence for an association with healthrelated quality of life (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...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... H, Tranmer J, McColl MA: Longterm health- related quality of life in survivors of sepsis Short form 36: a valid and reliable measure of health- related quality of life Crit Care Med 2000, 28:3599-3605 ... status and perceived quality of life 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 of interventions in the critically ill and in non-ICU patients Critically ill Costs per quality- adjusted life year...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Eiser C, Morse R: A review of measures of quality of life for children with chronic illness Arch Dis Child 2001, 84:205-211 Connolly MA, Johnson JA: Measuring quality of life in pediatric patients ... assess any new or ongoing AEs Health- related quality of life and 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 and of family life in general Caregivers of children in the Ritalin...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... 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 quality of life: reliability and validity of the child health and 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 of health and is distinct from symptoms of the disorder and objective...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... income, work status, place of residence and number of chronic conditions component of quality of life, and smokers showed poorer quality of life than never-smokers The results of the present study ... these behaviors and different aspects of quality of life, especially among the elderly The few studies investigating the association between health- related quality of life (HRQoL) and healthrelated ... risk of disease, increases life expectancy of those with illnesses and improves quality of life, though the harmful effects of smoking lasts for a certain amount of time depending on the health...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... reliability and validity of health- related quality of life questionnaire among adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda: cross-sectional study Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 ... district, Uganda AIDS Care 2004, 16(1):81-94 EuroQol: –a new facility for the measurement of health- related quality of life The EuroQol Group Health Policy 1990, 16(3):199-208 Uganda Ministry of Health: ... Page of Figure Health- related quality life scores among adult tuberculosis patients in Kampala Uganda, 2007-2008 Whiskers are standard errors (SEs) whereas bars represent health- related quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... Quality of Life and Technology Assessment http://www.nap.edu/catalog/1424.html CONTENTS ix Contents Conceptual Background and Issues in Quality of Life Kathleen N Lohr The Use of Quality- of- Life ... Assessing Quality of 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 Quality of Life and Technology Assessment http://www.nap.edu/catalog/1424.html CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND AND ISSUES IN QUALITY OF LIFE 1 Conceptual Background and Issues in Quality of Life Kathleen...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... indicator of general quality of life and women’s quality of life 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 of health and home care on the quality of life of women in each section of Canada [75] It concluded that increasing privatisation of health care, ... by Medicare and Medicaid Conclusion: the welfare state and women’s quality of life The findings concerning women’s quality of life in Canada are consistent with the analysis of Fast and Keating’s...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... 46, 57–66 19 Mokhtari F and Ghasemi N (2011) Comparison of elderly quality of life and mental health living in nursing homes and members of retired of Shiraz city Salmand: Iranian J Ageing 5, ... Cross-cultural quality of life assessment at the end of life Gerontologist 42, 81–85 26 Schwarz S, Volzke H, Alte D, Schwahn C, Grabe HJ, Hoffmann W et al (2007) Menopause and determinates of quality of life ... M and Montazeri A (2008) Determinants of health- related quality of life in elderly in Tehran, Iran BMC Public Health 8, 323 30 Tsai SY, Chi LY, Lee LS and Chou P (2004) Healthrelated quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... 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 quality and price of all available ... severity of illness may confound the estimated relationship between quality received and health outcomes Consequently, we estimate the reduced-form determinants of health that relate measures of health ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... feeling of worth, sense of reliability and guidance which has contributed to quality of life of 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 quality of life 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...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... districts of Senegal Supervision and quality Approaches to improving quality of 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 and quality of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... expectations, and women wishing to access PMTCT services will be victims of that stigma, too Perceived role in improving quality of care Most of the health workers agreed that the quality of 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 and improving the quality of 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,...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... measuring health- related quality of life in children and adolescents; HRQL: Health- Related Quality of Life; CBCL: Child Behaviour Checklist; SDQ: Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire; SD: Standard ... Assessing health status and quality of life instruments: attributes and review criteria Qual Life Res 2002, 11:193-205 Gandek B, Ware J: Methods for validating and norming translations of health ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:35 Background Measurement of health related quality of life (HRQL) started in the 70's as a complement...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... Correlates of health- related quality of life 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 of Health References 10 11 12 13 14 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Health- Related Quality of Life [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) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... 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) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... provides standardized regression coefficients for the effect of frailty category on the subscales and summary scales of the SF-36 quality of life measure On all subscales and both the physical and mental ... associated with diminished health related quality of life in a large sample of Mexican American older adults Future research on health related quality of life in this population should consider...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20