... coordination between the Ministry of Finance, BOG and the Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network (GHAMFIN) has led to a better understanding of the characteristics of microfinance loans and ... kinds of institutional providers of microfinance and, especially, their development into self-sustaining, commercial microfinance institutions capable of reaching growing numbers of poor ... (GHAMFIN), which was established in the late 1990s by a group of RMFIs as a network of microfinance institutions. Its membership cuts across the formal, semi formal and informal institutions and...
... CentralPage 1 of 6(page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife OutcomesOpen AccessResearchCorrelations among improvements in urgency urinary incontinence, health- related quality ... urgency urinaryincontinence.Competing interestsPVK has been an investigator and lecturer for Astellas, Eli-Lilly, Ferring, Pfizer Inc, and Novartis; CK has been a con-sultant, investigator, and ... contributionsPvK, CK, KC, ZK, MB, and JTW participated in the concept and design, interpretation of data, and the drafting and revising of the manuscript. PvK was involved in collectingthe data. JTW conducted...
... of 9(page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife OutcomesOpen AccessResearchCo-morbidity and visual acuity are risk factors for health- related quality oflife decline: ... and health- related qualityoflifeof patients in primary care. Qual Life Res2006, 15:83-91.5. Fortin M, Lapointe L, Hudon C, Vanasse A, Ntetu AL, Maltais D: Mul-timorbidity andqualityof ... quality oflife (QOL). Knowledge of co-existing conditions or patient characteristics that lead to an increased QOL decline isimportant for individual care, andfor public health purposes. In...
... scoreNumber of patients BioMed CentralPage 1 of 9(page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife OutcomesOpen AccessResearchChanges in health- related qualityoflife from ... of sepsis. ShortForm 36: a valid and reliable measure of health- related qual-ity oflife Crit Care Med 2000, 28:3599-360514. Pettila V, Kaarlola A and Makelainen A Health- related quality of life ... Pavoni V and Gritti G Survival and qualityoflife after intensive care Intensive Care Med 1996,22:947-95319. Ridley S Outcomes in critical care Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford2002, Outcomes in critical...
... baseline and follow-up functioning and global qualityoflife scores on the EORTC QLQ-C30 (the higher values indicate a higher level of functioning andqualityof life, min.: 0, max.: 100)Baseline ... cognitive, social and emotional func-tioning and lower on other three measures; role and phys-ical functioning and global qualityoflife (the higher HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, ... inqualityoflifein patients with low income[8].This paper reports on data from a prospective study of quality oflifein lung cancer patients and examineswhether there is a difference in...
... issues in the use ofqualityof life measures in randomized controlled trials. In: Qualityof life assessment in clinical trials methods and practice Edited by: Staquet MJ,Hays RD, Fayers PM. Oxford, ... O and Kamidono S: Assessment of health- related qualityoflifein renal transplant and hemo-dialysis patients using the SF-36 Health Survey. Urology 2000,56(2):201-206. HealthandQualityof ... 1998:69-90. 12. Anderson RT, Aaronson NK, Bullinger M and McBee WL: A Review of the Progress Towards Developing Health- Related Quality ofLife Instruments for International Clinical Studies and Outcomes...
... thing to aim forin under-standing what's going on."I.6 "Being quiet and not sociable. Not wanting to go any-where and being suspicious of people and what they werethinking of ... Development of a quality oflife profile for use in community services for the mentallyill. Soc Work Soc Sci 3:5-45. 1991–199226. Heinrichs D, Hanlon E and Carpenter W: The qualityoflife scale:an instrument ... 3):267s-274s.31. Bergner M: Development testing and use of the SicknessImpact Profile. In: QualityofLife Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990's HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, 1 http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/31Page...
... HeartDisease health- related qualityoflife instrument: A sum-mary. Healthandqualityoflife outcomes 2004, 2(1):3.22. Dixon T, Lim LL, Oldridge NB: The MacNew heart disease health- related qualityof ... Schỹòler G, von Steinbỹchel N, Oldridge NB: Health- related qualityoflifein patients with coronary arterydisease treated for angina: validity and reliability of Germantranslations of two specific ... adjusted life years (QALYs) [24]. The EQ-5D consists of a 5-dimensional descriptive system and a visual analoguescale allowing assessment of relevant segments of HRQL: HealthandQualityof Life...
... overall qualityoflife but also elements of quality oflife such as healthand functioning as well as symptom relief and psychological and spiritual well-being.2. HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes: ... being referred to as qualityoflife measures when they actually measure qualityofhealth not qualityoflife " because I think that health is part of our life. The concept ofqualityof ... askingwhich of four possible titles they preferred and why. Thefour options offered were:1. QualityofLife Outcomes2. HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes3. Health- related Qualityof Life...
... (known informally as the"Bypass Budget") whose goal is to enhance the state of thescience for defining, measuring, monitoring, and improv-ing the qualityof cancer care, and inform ... therapies work in the practice setting using indicatorsthat encompass a very broad range ofhealthand non- health domains.The need to know the actual value ofhealth interventions in health care ... reliability of OR at European level and better integration of both translational and outcome research in the mainstream of clinical research into anti-cancerPublished: 3 April 2003 Health andQuality of...