Quality of Life Research

PatientViewpoint: a website for patient-reported outcomes assessment

Claire F. Snyder, Roxanne Jensen, S. Orion Courtin, Albert W. Wu

Predicting EQ-5D utility scores from the 25-item National Eye Institute Vision Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ 25) in patients with age-related macular degeneration

Nalin Payakachat, Kent H. Summers, Andreas M. Pleil, Matthew M. Murawski, Joseph Thomas III, Kristofer Jennings, James G. Anderson

The concurrent validity and responsiveness of the health utilities index (HUI 3) among patients with advanced HIV/AIDS

Bohdan Nosyk, Huiying Sun, Nick Bansback, Daphne P. Guh, Xin Li, Paul Barnett, Ahmed Bayoumi, Susan Griffin, Vilija Joyce, Mark Holodniy, Doug K. Owens, Aslam H. Anis

Quality of life from the perspective of adolescents with cerebral palsy: “I just think I’m a normal kid, I just happen to have a disability”

Keiko Shikako-Thomas, Lucy Lach, Annette Majnemer, Jodie Nimigon, Kelti Cameron, Michael Shevell

Quality of life in Serbian patients with Parkinson’s disease

Ljubomir Žiropađa, Elka Stefanova, Aleksandra Potrebić, Vladimir S. Kostić

Psychosocial adaptation status and health-related quality of life among older Chinese adults with visual disorders

Chong-Wen Wang, Cecilia L. W. Chan

Quality of life of palliative chemotherapy naive patients with advanced adenocarcinoma of the stomach or esophagogastric junction treated with irinotecan combined with 5-fluorouracil and folinic acid: results of a randomised phase III trial

• Open Access

Desmond Curran, Carmelo Pozzo, Jerzy Zaluski, Magdalena Dank, Carlo Barone, Vahur Valvere, Suayib Yalcin, Christian Peschel, Miklós Wenczl, Erdem Goker, Roland Bugat

Measuring pain in the context of homelessness

Rebecca Matter, Susan Kline, Karon F. Cook, Dagmar Amtmann

Development of physical and mental health summary scores from the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) global items

• Open Access

Ron D. Hays, Jakob B. Bjorner, Dennis A. Revicki, Karen L. Spritzer, David Cella

Building PROMIS item banks: librarians as co-investigators

Mary Klem, Ester Saghafi, Rebecca Abromitis, Angela Stover, Mary Amanda Dew, Paul Pilkonis

Readability estimates for commonly used health-related quality of life surveys

• Open Access

Sylvia H. Paz, Honghu Liu, Marie N. Fongwa, Leo S. Morales, Ron D. Hays

Development of a battery of instruments for detailed measurement of health status in patients with COPD in routine care: the Nijmegen Clinical Screening Instrument

• Open Access

Jeannette Bernadette Peters, Leonie Daudey, Yvonne F. Heijdra, Johan Molema, P. N. Richard Dekhuijzen, Jan H. Vercoulen

Confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis of the caregiver quality of life index-cancer with Turkish samples

Zeynep C. Ozer, Mehmet Z. Firat, Hicran A. Bektas

Italian translation of the Manchester-Oxford Foot Questionnaire, with re-assessment of reliability and validity

• Brief Communication

Andrea Marinozzi, Nicolò Martinelli, Manlio Panascì, Francesco Cancilleri, Edoardo Franceschetti, Bruno Vincenzi, Alberto Di Martino, Vincenzo Denaro

Psychometric validation of two patient-reported outcome measures to assess symptom severity and changes in symptoms in hereditary angioedema

Margaret K. Vernon, Anne M. Rentz, Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Martha V. White, Aurelie Grienenberger

Reliability and validity of an instrument for assessing patients’ perceptions about medications for diabetes: the PAM-D

Patrick O. Monahan, Kathleen A. Lane, Risa P. Hayes, Colleen A. McHorney, David G. Marrero