Quality of life after intestinal transplantation

Progress in Transplantation;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Health Organization has suggested that QOL instruments should assess 3 components of an individual...level of health or sense of wellness. QOL instruments vary in complexity and validity, and...instruments. Limitations of these QOL instruments include the bias that can be ...

Outcome Measures in Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy: Focus on the RAND...

Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......generic, self-report quality of life (QoL) instruments, such as the Medical Outcomes Study...disadvantage of generic health-related QoL instruments is that they may not be as sensitive...as disease specific health-related QoL instruments.6-8 Unfortunately the disease specific...

Quality of Life in Adult Home Parenteral Nutrition Patients

JPEN, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......eat negatively affected QOL. Conclusions: Use of different QOL instruments, scales, and lifestyle domains limited comparison among...measures of health status and diseasespecific measures. Many QOL instruments have been well validated for patients with chronic disease...

Outcome Measures in Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy: Focus on the Heart...

Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......measured using generic, self-report QoL instruments.1-7 A primary disadvantage of generic health-related QoL instruments is that they may not be as sensitive...disease specific health-related QoL instruments.6-8 Unfortunately the disease...

Exploration of the Value of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Information...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Quality-of-life (QOL) instruments used in clinical research can provide important evidence to...measurement in 2 different ways. First, investigators who use QOL instruments in clinical research can provide important evidence to inform...

Measuring quality of life post-stroke

Neurology Report;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......overall health. Generic instruments that have been used to examine QOL post-stroke and 3 recently developed stroke specific QOL instruments are reviewed and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. The stroke specific QOL measures reviewed here include...

Quality of life of individuals with spinal cord injury: A review of...

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......consider important to life quality; and have a health state that is preferred much less than that of the average person. Many QoL instruments used in SCI research have not been validated for this group, or have questionable assumptions, and clinical applications...

Combo of generic/specific questionnaires yields thorough QoL assessment of...

Dermatology Times;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......including dermatology-specific instruments and psoriasis-specific instruments. The comparisons included both quality of life (QoL) instruments and clinical severity measures, such as the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI). "These instruments actually measure...

In my shoes: children's quality of life after heart transplantation

Progress in Transplantation;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......with parents and older children revealed additional problems with isolation and self-esteem. Other researchers have used QOL instruments rather than psychosocial outcomes as proxies for QOL. For example, Apajasalo et al7 used age-appropriate measures of QOL...

Quality of life of people with type 2 diabetes in Mauritius.(Research)

Diabetes and Primary Care;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......aspects of patients' life that should not be the concern of the clinician.' A possible danger of the inappropriate use of QoL instruments is that they may replace real communication between patients and healthcare professionals (Testa et al, 1998). People with...

Continuity and discontinuity: The quality of life following stroke

Rehabilitation Nursing;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......rehabilitation, the focus on persons' functional abilities limits the achievement of this goal. In an extensive analysis of QOL instruments, Gill and Feinstein (1994) concluded, "quality of life can be suitably measured only by determining the opinions of clients...

Quality of life of Turkish patients with head and neck cancer

Turkish Journal of Cancer;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......gender, age, mental status, education, employment, side of tumor, date of diagnosis, treatment type, and radiotherapy doses. QoL instruments Patients completed the EORTC QLQ-C30 (Version 3.0), the EORTC QLQ-H&N 35 at regular follow-up visit, using face to face...

Using quality of life assessment in wound care. (arts & science tissue...

Nursing Standard;  October 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ......population level for research purposes, rather than for improving care. Overall, researchers are best advised to use a range of QoL instruments in clinical studies (Drummond 2001). The challenge is to ensure these are appropriate for practical use in nursing assessment...

Patient, clinician, and population perspectives on determining the...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......clinicians are uncertain about how to interpret score changes reported by patients. This, in turn, limits the appeal of using QOL instruments in clinical practice. The significance of a specific score change is addressed in the first article of this series.1 This...

Quality of life of stroke survivors: a research synthesis.

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......2000; deHaan, Aaronson, Limburg, Hewer, & van Crevel, 1993; Tate, Dijkers, & Johnson-Greene, 1996; Williams, 1998) QOL instruments. However, no articles were found that presented a comprehensive synthesis of research on stroke survivors' QOL. Because...