quality of life research in thoracic outlet syndrome

... staff of the Community Hospitals in Herdecke and Berlin, staff of an ambulant out-patient care unit in Essen, attendants of a meeting on "Spirituality and Medicine" in Berlin, a Caritas congress in ... religion; finding meaning" Thus, it is obvious that spiritual well-being is inextricably intertwined with the physical, social and emotional needs of patients Within the last years scientific research ... meaning of disease Reflecting on meaning and sense of life and positive interpretation of disease obviously can have an impact on how patients change their further life, and thus on distinct...

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... Robinson PG: Is quality of life determined by expectations or experience? BMJ 2001, 322:1240-1243 Smith KW, Avis NE, Assmann SF: Distinguishing between quality of life and health status in quality ... Population Assessment of Health Related Quality of Life Atlanta, GA; CDC; 2000 Gill GM, Feinstein AR: A critical appraisal of the quality of quality- of- life measurements JAMA 1994, 272:619-626 ... Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Barcelona, Spain, Qual Lif Res Abstracts Issue 1999, 8:617 Nanda U, Andresen EM: Performance measures of healthrelated quality of life...

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... survival, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) has become an increasingly important endpoint in studies regarding the effectiveness of lung transplantation Studies in which HRQL was included as an outcome ... quality of life in patients surviving at least 55 months after lung transplantation Gen Hosp Psychiatry 2003, 25:95-102 Festle MJ: Qualifying the quantifying: Assessing the Quality of Life of Lung ... specific point are analyzed These kind of analyses result in conclusions for different groups of patients at the various time points Thus, in cross sectional analyses, the longitudinal character of the...

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... new, four-building complex that houses research and teaching for bioengineering, communications and photonics, the Fitzpatrick Center was an ideal place to begin deploying in- building wireless ... systems, Duke is enabling current and future mobile services that add to the quality of life, part of the ongoing drive for improvements that keep it in the top 10 ranking of American universities ... halls in any given area get the upgrade at the same time Otherwise, we’ll get some serious complaints from students about unevenness in the quality of life. ” Other future plans include the integration...

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... corresponding to 13.8 incidents/bed/year of which 7.4 incidents/bed/year were physical attacks on staff Assessments of professional quality of life were made with the Professional Quality of Life ... Compassion Fatigue (CF) in the ProQOL in a binary logistic regression model using a forward stepwise method (Wald) In the final model, including only variables significantly contributing to the model, ... problems in the region Assessments Approximately 100 staff members were administered questionnaires regarding occurrence of post traumatic stress symptoms and their professional quality of life For...

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... M: Interpretation of quality of life scores from the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire Eur Respir J 2002, 19:405-413 Higginson IJ, Carr AJ: Measuring quality of life: Using quality of life ... enrolment and obtaining informed consent, an explanation of the handling of the QL-recorder to participating patients, interpretation and use of results during the consultation Training sessions took ... Significance Consensus Meeting Group: Exploration of the value of healthrelated quality- of- life information from clinical research and into clinical practice Mayo Clin Proc 2007, 82:1229-1239 Hess R, Santucci...

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... 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 endpoints ... regarding HRQOL and various levels of weight loss or gain Abbreviations HRQOL: Health-related quality of life; PRO: Patient reported outcomes; IWQOL-Lite: Impact of Weight on Quality of Life- Lite ... Williams GR: Development of a brief measure to assess quality of life in obesity Obes Res 2001, 9:102-111 Kolotkin RL, Crosby RD: Manual for the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life Measure (IWQOL...

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... example of health-related quality of life A European guideline document for the improved integration of health-related quality of life assessment in the drug regulatory process Drug Inf J 2002, ... clearer insights into its measurement properties and direct eventual revisions Abbreviations KINDL: German questionnaire for measuring quality of life in children and adolescents; QOL: quality of life; ... Bullinger M: Current issues in cross-cultural quality of life instrument development Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2003, 84:S29-34 Fayers PM, Machin D: Quality of Life: The assessment, analysis and interpretation...

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... determinant of quality of life than it is specific to kidney transplantation The RTQ can be utilized alone or in complement with the SF36, according to the clinician's objective The interest of using ... used to pay the printing of questionnaires, mailing costs, data management and the English translation of the draft References Spiker BN: Quality of life and phamarcoeconomics in clinical trials ... health-related quality of life in renal transplant and hemodialysis patients using the SF-36 health survey Urology 2000, 56:201-206 Tomasz W, Piotr S: A trial of objective comparison of quality of life...

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... Y: Measuring health-related quality of life in Greek children: psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory(TM) 4.0 Generic Core Scales Qual Life Res ... Last BF: Quality of life in young adult survivors of childhood cancer Support Care Cancer 2002, 10:579-600 Yeh CH, Chang CW, Chang PC: Evaluating quality of life in children with cancer using children's ... leukemia; HRQOL: healthrelated quality of life; PedsQL™: the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions...

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... given instructions on the study procedure both verbally and in writing at the beginning of the study, and eyecatching posters were put up in the waiting room to remind them of the study In addition, ... and compliance of automated measurement of quality of life in oncology practice J Clin Oncol 2003, 21(2):374-82 Detmar SB, Aaronson NKL: Quality of life assessment in daily clinical oncology ... reported include general lack of time, money and human resources, impracticality of instruments, disruption of clinical routine, lack of IT support and health professionals' lack of knowledge in this...

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... 47(2):76-83 Guyatt GH, King DR, Feeny DH, Stubbing D, Goldstein RS: Generic and specific measurement of health-related quality of life in a clinical trial of respiratory rehabilitation JClinEpidemiol 1999, ... EF, 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 ... of the questionnaires by calculating the extent of missing items within each HRQL instrument The analysis of measurement properties requiring a longitudinal assessment were beyond the scope of...

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... 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 of clinical settings, ... baseline measure of quality of life, the lack of responsiveness makes it unsuitable for use as a measure of change in Day Hospital The pursuit of individualised quality of life information remains ... reliability of the PGI was moderate, and interestingly the tool was less reliable when rescoring pre-chosen domains of quality of life This suggests that re-presenting previously chosen domains of quality...

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... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005, 3:69 Background Osteoporosis is a debilitating chronic disease that can reduce quality of life (QoL) in a variety of ways, including diminished physical ... critically for important intellectual content KS was involved in the drafting of the document RP was involved in the drafting of the document and revising it critically for important intellectual content ... examples of health-related quality of life – A European guidance document for the improved integration of health-related quality of life assessment in the drug regulatory process Drug Inf J 2002,...

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... known as the insulin resistance syndrome) The metabolic syndrome is present in almost one-half of all older individuals and is a condition associated with hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance ... Arthritis in a Population Health Survey Med Care 2000, 38:290-299 Drummond M: Introducing Economic and Quality of Life Measurements into Clinical Studies Ann Medicine 2001, 33:344-349 Page of (page ... as a determinant of health, is a distinct aspect of socioeconomic status that is useful in predicting HRQL, independent of education level [47] Despite the above mentioned limitations in this study,...

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... and ribavirin Compared to the baseline, the responders sustained a significant decrease in the domain score of vitality while of the domain scores declined in non responders at the end of treatment ... were excluded Sustained virologic response was defined as loss of serum HCV RNA at follow-up 24 weeks after discontinuation of treatment Measurement and scoring of quality of life The HRQOL data ... effects of interferon alpha-2b in combination with ribavirin on health related quality of life and work productivity J Hepatol 2001, 34:140-147 Hassanein T, Cooksley G, Sulkowski M, Smith C, Marinos...

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... competing interests Received: May 2010 Accepted: 15 March 2011 Published: 15 March 2011 References Higginson IJ, Carr AJ: Measuring quality of life: Using quality of life measures in the clinical ... measures in the clinical setting BMJ 2001, 322:1297-1300 Wood-Dauphinee S: Assessing Quality of Life in Clinical Research: From Where Have We Come and Where Are We Going? J Clin Epidemiol 1999, 52(4):353-363 ... usability of health-related quality of life questionnaires in clinical settings, we selected tools that differed in length The more comprehensive MOS-HIV provides more precise estimates of a range of...

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... 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, Schmidt L, Mackintosh A, Fitzpatrick ... J: 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 ... therapeutic intervention [13,14] In a clinical trial, the knowledge of instrument’s responsiveness helps in the selection of measures, in setting the correct sample size and assists in prioritising the...

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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 quality ... quality of life? Findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study Age Ageing 2006, 35:409-415 10 Gusi N, Olivares PR, Rajendram R: The EQ-5D health related quality of life questionnaire In Handbook of ... whilst rest of confounders was included according with the categories exposed in table The cut-off points of probability that were used for logistic modeling were previously determined by a Receiver...

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... Checklist-Civilian; POMS: Profile of Mood States; QLACS: Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors Scale; QLI-CV: Quality of Life Index-Cancer Version; QOL: Quality of Life; QOL-CS: Quality of Life- Cancer Survivors; ... scores indicating more dysfunction Self-administered, interviewer-administered Time to administer: 15 Scaling & scoring/Administration Table 1: Description of quality of life instruments in long-term ... Checklist-Civilian; POMS = Profile of Mood States; QLACS = Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivor Scale; QLI-CV = Quality of Life Index-Cancer Version; QOL-CS = Quality of Life- Cancer Survivor SF-36...

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