introducing a quality of life instrument in clinical practice

... development of the computer program which had to include several crucial specifications (instant scoring and graphical output of the data, instant availability of data to physicians, guaranteing patient ... feedback of HRQoL has as of yet not been widely implemented in clinical practice This may be explained by the initial lack of convincing data regarding the effectiveness of standardized HRQoL measurement ... the assessment of the physical, psychological, and social functioning of the patient in terms of the impact of disease is "an essential part of clinical diagnosis, a major determinant of therapeutic...

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... development of the computer program which had to include several crucial specifications (instant scoring and graphical output of the data, instant availability of data to physicians, guaranteing patient ... feedback of HRQoL has as of yet not been widely implemented in clinical practice This may be explained by the initial lack of convincing data regarding the effectiveness of standardized HRQoL measurement ... the assessment of the physical, psychological, and social functioning of the patient in terms of the impact of disease is "an essential part of clinical diagnosis, a major determinant of therapeutic...

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... transplantation produce quality of life benefits? A quantitative analysis of literature Transplantation 1997, 64:1261-1273 Fujisawa M, Ichikawa Y, Yoshiya K, Isotani S, Higuchi A, Nagano S, Arakawa ... Ganz PA: Impact of quality of life outcomes on clinical practice Oncology 1995, 11(suppl):61-65 Stewart AL, Hays RD, Ware JE: Methods of validating MOS health Measures In Measuring functioning and ... data management and the English translation of the draft References Spiker BN: Quality of life and phamarcoeconomics in clinical trials 2nd edition Philadelphia, NY: Lippincott-Raven; 1996 Ganz...

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... general population with a standard deviation of 10 Validation measures We used a number of validation measures available from the SAPALDIA database that met the Global Initiative for Asthma criteria ... Guyatt GH, Epstein RS, Ferrie PJ, Jaeschke R, Hiller TK: Evaluation of impairment of health related quality of life in asthma: development of a questionnaire for use in clinical trials Thorax ... pain", "social functioning" and "role emotional" domains The "general health", "vitality" and "mental health" domains showed almost normal distributions Cronbach alpha was above 0.7 for all AQLQ...

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... illness of the practice assistant; change in practice software; lack of time) According to the practice assistants, virtually all patients who were invited agreed to take part in the study In total, ... asthma J Asthma 2003, 40:751-762 Chang CH, Cella D, Masters GA, Laliberte N, O'Brien P, Peterman A, Shervin D: Real-time clinical application of quality- of- life assessment in advanced lung cancer ... de Man RA, Darlington AS: Logistic feasibility of health related quality of life measurement in clinical practice: results of a prospective study in a large population of chronic liver patients...

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... potentially traumatizing One can also speculate on if one of the treatment principles, i.e making the patient treatable at a lower security level can explain the low compassion satisfaction scores at ... health among Hungarian health care staff: a questionnaire survey Int J Nurs Stud 2006, 43(3):311-318 Inoue M, Tsukano K, Muraoka M, Kaneko F, Okamura H: Psychological impact of verbal abuse and ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:31 role conflict, a special feature in psychiatry caring as to the amount of violence nurses are forced to handle, that this role conflict in combination...

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... used as a covariate because there was too much missing data (>10% of the population had missing data on this variable) All data were from self-report Age was categorized into quartiles (12–29 years, ... calculation of time since cancer diagnosis are collected as part of the CCHS Cycle 1.1 microdata, these variables are not available in the CCHS PUF Another limitation of this dataset was the inability ... precise as the micro data available through Statistics Canada In the PUF, some data elements are aggregated, and variables that have been collapsed, and more importantly there is no information...

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... A systematic review of quality of life instruments in long-term breast cancer survivors Ishveen Chopra1 and Khalid M Kamal2 Division of Clinical, Social and Administrative Sciences Mylan School ... diagnosed at an older age had worse QoL in physical domain and women diagnosed at a younger age had worse QoL in social domain FACT-B Selfadministered CARES-SF; other instruments (SF-36, Ladder of Life ... evaluated all four domains (physical, psychological, social, and spiritual) of QoL A review of the psychometric evaluation showed that Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors Scale has acceptable...

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... and paging traffic into the same Unison network, as well as the addition of EV-DO data services as they become available “As our legacy antennas for the public safety and paging systems fail, ... knew about in- building wireless systems and wanted to a pilot deployment, so the Fitzpatrick Center was a good choice,” said Dana Risley, senior manager of the finance and administration group at ... public safety and paging network traffic to the new system,” Risley says, “and we wanted as much as possible to leverage our existing fiber and Cat-5 cabling installations.” CASE STUDY Based on...

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... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:53 Background There is growing interest in assessing patient-reported outcomes (PRO) in clinical trials along with more traditional clinical primary ... measures are applicable to any population and scores may be compared to general population norms as well as across diseases Disease-specific measures contain items of particular relevance to patients ... http://www.euroqol.org Statistical Analyses Data from the experimental drug group and placebo group were pooled for the analyses This approach was warranted because no clinically meaningful differences in efficacy...

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... patient and caregiver characteristics with caregiver quality- of- life scale scores were analyzed using Pearson or Spearman correlations or analysis of variance (ANOVA), as appropriate Backwards stepwise ... have actually had change in quality of life by setting a cap on the testretest interval and restricting to those who changed minimally on an external criterion variable, true change may have attenuated ... nonmissing data for the particular variable Higher order associations of individual scales were evaluated using factor analysis Several number of factor criteria were run, including Guttman's weakest...

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... in quality of life instruments: 'Indicator and causal variables' in the EORTC QLQ-C30 Qual Life Res 2006, 15:131-141 Meuleners LB, Lee AH, Binns CW, Lower A: Quality of life for adolescents: assessing ... questionnaires after a seven-day period Construct validity was assessed using factor analysis that combines observable variables into unobservable, latent variables, giving insights into the ... citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:79 This is mainly because QOL questionnaires often combine items with a causal relationship with the latent variables, causal variables,...

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... department of Dr Sardjito Hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Dr Sardjito Hospital is a teaching hospital of the medical faculty of the Gadjah Mada University, and a tertiary-care referral hospital ... hospitalization class or data of family income is not available, we used hospitalization class as SES determinant Medical data regarding diagnosis and treatment status were obtained from the patients' ... two local professional translators, native Indonesia speakers, and bilingual in English language The second step, the Bahasa Indonesia version was translated back to English version and it was done...

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... data and helped analyse the data MDW analysed the data and wrote the paper All authors contributed to the writing and revising of the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional ... were administered in the same order at each visit At each time point, patients were asked to mark a visual analog scale to indicate their overall quality of life and at week one and discharge ... Hospitals are to be effective in improving and promoting quality of life, it is important to try and measure quality of life Individualised quality of life tools have been used successfully in a variety...

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... (semi-quantitative and quantitative) and as a major clinical expert in the SOTI study, also validated the clinical aspects of the article PJM is the SOTI coordinator and as a major clinical expert in the ... Mean change measured between baseline and endpoint ES = (mean at endpoint – mean at baseline)/standard deviation of change patients had a fracture, they tended to have a positive mean change in ... baseline) and in the waiting room at the medical centre (64.6% at baseline) rather than at home Quality of completion There was a high return rate of questionnaires (93.5% at baseline) and quality...

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... with a combination of interferon alpha-2b and ribavirin Compared to the baseline, the responders sustained a significant decrease in the domain score of vitality while of the domain scores declined ... Trejo-Estrada R, Horta E, Vale A, Wintfeld N, Green J: The impact of peginterferon alfa- 2a plus ribavirin combination therapy on health-related quality of life in chronic hepatitis C J Hepatol 2004, ... Gervais A, Martinot M, Pouteau M, Castelnau C, Kilani A, Areias J, Auperin A, Benhamou JP, Degott C, Erlinger S: Long-term histologic improvement and loss of detectable intrahepatic HCV RNA in patients...

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... of factor loadings (configural invariance), the magnitude of factor loadings (metric invariance), and the magnitude of item intercepts (scalar invariance) In assessing factorial differences across ... VETERAN and DOPPS samples (weak invariance) Scalar invariance As discussed, scalar invariance is the magnitude of item intercepts According to the likelihood-ratio test Saban et al Health and Quality ... equivalent loadings (metric invariance), and equivalent item intercepts (scalar invariance) are all found across groups [27] Equivalence of factor variances and covariances An additional test of...

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... this article as: Chariyalertsak et al.: Reliability and validity of Thai versions of the MOS-HIV and SF-12 quality of life questionnaires in people living with HIV/AIDS Health and Quality of Life ... interest in the study Demographic and HIV/AIDS related information Demographic information, including age, sex, marital status, educational attainment, and occupation/ Page of employment status were ... team In conclusion, the Thai versions of the SF-12 and MOS-HIV were acceptable, valid, and reliable among HIV+ Thai patients interviewed in a clinical outpatient setting As more Thais are able...

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... Kotzeva A, Valderas JM, Alonso J: Exploration of the value of healthrelated quality- of- life information from clinical research and into clinical practice Mayo Clin Proc 2007, 82:1229-1239 Garratt A, ... chemotherapy on change of clinical state (absolute values of SRM and ES between 0.51 and 0.79) The changes in clinical state evaluated by the total score of the FACT-C questionnaire were not significant ... Interpreting the significance of changes in health-related quality- of- life scores J Clin Oncol 1998, 16:139-144 18 Jaeschke R, Singer J, Guyatt GH: Measurement of health status Ascertaining the minimal...

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... health-related quality of life Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:47 Hakkinen A, Rinne M, Vasankari T, Santtila M, Hakkinen K, Kyrolainen H: Association of physical fitness with health-related ... FA, Valenzuela A, Gusi N, Nacher S, Gallardo I: [Evaluation of healthrelated fitness in adults (II): reliability, applicability and normative values of the AFISAL-INEFC battery] Apunts Educación ... questions regarding age, marital status, educational level, smoking and alcohol habits, and the weekly level of PA was administered Health-related quality of life The Spanish version of the EQ-5D-3L...

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