... cross-sectional or included patientswith otherdiagnoses. The objectives of this study were to identify predictors of HRQL inpatientswith colorectal cancer and interpret the clinical importance of the ... treatment efficacy in randomized clinical trials[2-4]. HRQL is also used in quality of care research [5] andis a predictor of survival ofpatientswith colorectal cancer [6-8]. Understanding the characteristics ... studies of HRQL that combineddata from patientswith colorectal cancer and patients with other diagnoses such as breast or lung cancer [12-14]may have failed to identify relationships involving...
... evaluating the effect of adalimumab inpatientswith psoriasis (N = 1,205). Patientswith moderate to severe psoriasis were randomized in a 2:1 ratioto adalimumab 80 mg (two 40 mg injections administered ... impact on patients& apos; health-related quality of life (HRQOL) [1-7]. Psoriasis symp-tomatology, including pain and itching, combined with concerns about the appearance of one's skin can ... R,Guzzo C, Li S, Dooley LT, Griffiths CE: Improvement in quality of life with infliximab induction and maintenance therapy in patientswith moderate-to-severe psoriasis: a randomizedcontrolled...
... trial of once-daily ruboxistaurin for vision loss inpatientswith diabeticretinopathy. The clinical findings and characteristics of this trial have been reported previously [22]. A total of 684 ... letters, and the other37 patients lost between 10 and 27 letters). Analyses com-paring subgroups ofpatientswith different levels of visionloss within this group ofpatients could help identifywhether ... this link over time. Thus, the purpose of thecurrent study was to examine the degree of change in HRQL that is associated with visual acuity changes among patients with diabetic retinopathy. Patients...
... score of the SF36 of patients with fibromyalgia in this study was studied in comparison with scores ofpatientswith fibromyalgia from other stud-ies, quality of life scores ofpatientswith ... of life ofpatientswith fibromy-algia as related to the quality of life ofpatientsin otherchronic conditions is presented in Table 4. Results of qual-ity of life ofpatients participating ... regarding disability in chronic pain patientswith apremorbid overactive lifestyle matches the ideasexplained in the self-discrepancy model of Higgins [26]. In view of the explanation of disability...
... balance impairment in persons with PD. That is, combining an extended battery of clinical performance tests, subjective ratings of fear of falling and laboratory assessments that investigate reflex-ive ... test: two patients) . The patients ratedtheir fear of falling as less severe with DBS ON as com-pared to DBS OFF, and the total score of FES(S) increased(p = 0.002) in median with 54 points (Table ... results of the clinicalperformance tests that mimic activities in daily living. This improvement was further supported bythe patients& apos; ratings of fear of falling, which were less severe with...
... [43]Intravenous infusions of 3 or 5 mg kg(-1) of infliximab or placeboDLQI Infliximab induction therapy resulted in a substantial improvement in HRQOL. At week 10, patientsin the infliximab ... form of the QES with 23 items is a valid instru-ment for examination of social and psychic burdens of psoriasis. The recording of stigmatization feeling and of quality of life determines different ... of life and clinicaloutcome in psoriasis patients using intermittentcyclosporine (Neoral). Qual Life Res 2004, 13:91-95.46. van de Kerkhof PC: The impact of a two-compound productcontaining...
... measurebecause it incorporates all aspect of health into a singlenumber (between 0 and 1) with the extreme endpoints of death and perfect health [16].Methods Patients Patientswith documented ... studies. Our findingsmay also provide some preliminary data to aid bothpatient care providers and patientsin the clinical decisionmaking process regarding the optimal management of Barrett's ... for BE off of reflux therapy. Our BE with- out dysplasia utility score is within the same range as thisseparate and independent study, lending further credenceto both analyses' findings....
... comments and helped in theinterpretation of the results. CS participated in generating and in ga thering the data of the study. HPparticipated in generating and gathering the data of thestudy. AK ... risk of losing love? Experiences of Swedish men living with genital warts. IntJ Mens Health 2007, 6:100-114.28. Kitchener HC: The role of human papillomavirus in the genesis of cervical cancer. ... the data the data and in writing themanuscript. EN participated in generating the data and in writing the manuscript. MH participated in thedesign of the study and in writing the manuscript....
... available soon.Measuring health-related quality of life in children withcancer living in mainlandChina: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic ... information is available to understand the HRQOL of children withcancer living in mainland China. The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility, reliability, and validity of ... these questions, since not all of them attend kindergarten or school. This finding is comparable with previous reports of the PedsQL Cancer Module [9], and also in yline with other PedsQL disease-specific...
... (worse) scores in all domains of theSGRQ, than the men. There were no differences in anydomain for Stage III and IV patients. This is an interesting finding considering that female with FEV1% ... asso-ciated with health-related quality of life inpatients with COPD. Also, we also did not include generic question-naires like the SF-36, in the evaluation of the QoL of these patients, as some investigators ... detection of the disease in women. Indeed, theearly age of onset of impairment in QoL in women shouldraise alarm considering that most of the primary care phy-sicians do not think in COPD when...
... trial of once-daily ruboxistaurin for vision loss inpatientswith diabeticretinopathy. The clinical findings and characteristics of this trial have been reported previously [22]. A total of 684 ... at onepoint in time have also found that diabetic retinopathy isassociated with impairment in functioning and overallHRQL [13-16]. Studies conducted inpatientswith dia-betic retinopathy ... this link over time. Thus, the purpose of thecurrent study was to examine the degree of change in HRQL that is associated with visual acuity changes among patients with diabetic retinopathy. Patients...
... full health in EQ-5D was observed in 9% of patients, of whom 92% reported health restraints in SF-6D dimension vitality, 65% in mental health, 71% in phys-ical functioning [22]. And in a study ... disease severities.The main problem of the SF-12 in this self-adminis-tered setting was the high proportion of missing values.For less than 55% of all patients, a comparison of utilityvalues at ... to those with missing SF-6D, but disease severity did not differ between patients with available and missing scores. In all instruments,missing items were more frequent in women than in men(11%...
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