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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Open Access
Research
The visual analog rating scale of health-related quality of life: an
examination of end-digit preferences
Amir Shmueli*
Address: ... suggested by the data. Nevertheless, what can be the
interpretation of these values? Two explanations can be
offered. First, in Israel, as in ma...
... level.
Composition of mean-difference plots followed the
method of Bland and Altman [29]. Briefly, the mean of
the log
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fold change and the difference between the log
2
fold change for the platforms ... of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research doctoral research
award. The ovarian tumor banking was supported by the Banque de tissus
et de données of the Rése...
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Table 2: Range of mean item score and standard deviation, Internal consistency of item responses.
Mean SD Range of mean item score Range of SD item score Range of
r
item-total
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Cronbach ... analyses and wrote the man-
uscript. BK and URS were the principal investigators of the
study; they designed the study's concept and supervised
the writing of...
... 82.8% of cases, the proxy was the
mother and in 11.4% it was the father. The mean age of
mothers was 41.9 years and the mean age of fathers was
44.9 years. The real household income ranged from <
1500 ... between 0.33 and
Table 2: Range of mean item score and standard deviation, Internal consistency of item responses.
Mean SD Range of mean item score Range of SD...
... adapt and validate the EHP-5 in Iran.
Methods: Using a standard “forward-backward’ translation procedure, the English language version of the
questionnaire was translated into Persian (Iranian language). ... with one of the authors com-
pared their translations and produced a single provi-
sional version. Then two other professional translators
translated the provisional questio...
... 82.8% of cases, the proxy was the
mother and in 11.4% it was the father. The mean age of
mothers was 41.9 years and the mean age of fathers was
44.9 years. The real household income ranged from <
1500 ... conducted the statistical analyses and wrote the man-
uscript. BK and URS were the principal investigators of the
study; they designed the study's conce...
... and the soybean
tRNA. In contrast, the soybean enzyme effectively
linked the analogue to both plant tRNAs. Examination
of the kinetics of the reaction revealed a significantly
higher affinity of ... soybean were
arginylated to only 6–10% of the theoretical acceptance
by the arginyl-tRNA synthetases from both jack bean
and soybean, although the K
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... VFQ-25 scales in any of the
models.
Comparing change in individual VFQ-25 items among the
five ETDRS change groups
Mean change in each individual item of the VFQ-25 was
computed for each of the ... loss of
10 letters on the ETDRS visual acuity chart (i.e., a two-line
loss) had significantly greater mean declines in nearly all
VFQ-25 scales than any other group of patien...
... JE: An evaluation of length
and end-phase visual analogue scales in dental pain. Pain 1985,
21:177-185.
28. Scott J, Huskinsson EL: Vertical or horizontal visual analogue
scales. Annals of the ... contributions
JWV and SAS designed the instrument. SAS and JWV
drafted the manuscript. SAS performed the statistical anal-
yses. SJE conceptualized the rationale and design of...
... significantly different
change scores in the VFQ-25 dependency subscale and
total score. The group that worsened by ≥ 10 letters had
significantly different change scores than most of the
other ... compare the VFQ-25 change scores of the five groups,
when controlling for age, gender, and baseline visual acu-
ity. In these models, the change group is a five-level inde-
penden...