Quality of Life Research

Using structural equation modeling to detect response shift in performance and health-related quality of life scores of multiple sclerosis patients

• Open Access

Bellinda L. King-Kallimanis, Frans. J. Oort, Sandra Nolte, Carolyn E. Schwartz, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Erratum to: Using structural equation modeling to detect response shift in performance and health-related quality of life scores of multiple sclerosis patients

• Open Access
• Erratum

Bellinda L. King-Kallimanis, Frans J. Oort, Sandra Nolte, Carolyn E. Schwartz, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Data mining for response shift patterns in multiple sclerosis patients using recursive partitioning tree analysis

Yuelin Li, Carolyn E. Schwartz

Using latent trajectory analysis of residuals to detect response shift in general health among patients with multiple sclerosis article

Sara Ahmed, Nancy Mayo, Susan Scott, Ayse Kuspinar, Carolyn Schwartz

Response shift in patients with multiple sclerosis: an application of three statistical techniques

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Frans J. Oort, Sara Ahmed, Rita Bode, Yuelin Li, Timothy Vollmer

What do people include when they self-rate their health? Differential associations according to health status in community-dwelling older adults

Benjamin Schüz, Susanne Wurm, Ina Schöllgen, Clemens Tesch-Römer

Importance of patient satisfaction with care in predicting osteoarthritis-specific health-related quality of life one year after total joint arthroplasty

Cédric Baumann, Anne-Christine Rat, Didier Mainard, Christian Cuny, Francis Guillemin

In prospective study using Specific Quality of Life & Outcomes Response-Venous (SQOR-V) questionnaire the recall bias had the same magnitude as the minimally important difference

Fedor Lurie, Robert L. Kistner

The perceived impact of cancer on quality of life for post-treatment survivors of childhood cancer

Brad J. Zebrack, Wendy Landier

Impact of nocturia on disease-specific quality of life for men with localized prostate cancer

Shunichi Namiki, Misa Takegami, Shigeto Ishidoya, Isao Numata, Yoichi Arai

Participation as an outcome measure in psychosocial oncology: content of cancer-specific health-related quality of life instruments

• Open Access
• Review

Sijrike F. van der Mei, Marcel P. J. M. Dijkers, Yvonne F. Heerkens

Quality of life among testicular cancer survivors: a case–control study in the United States

Christopher Kim, Katherine A. McGlynn, Ruth McCorkle, Ralph L. Erickson, David W. Niebuhr, Shuangge Ma, Barry Graubard, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Kathryn Hughes Barry, Yawei Zhang

Quality of life and physical limitations in primary brain tumor patients

Mariana R. Gazzotti, Suzana M. F. Malheiros, Marcela Batan Alith, Oliver Nascimento, Ilka Lopes Santoro, José R. Jardim, Milena Vidotto

Suffering in long-term cancer survivors: An evaluation of the PRISM-R2 in a population-based cohort

• Open Access

Vicky Lehmann, Simone Oerlemans, Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse, Ad. J.J.M. Vingerhoets, Floortje Mols

Comparison and correlates of three preference-based health-related quality-of-life measures among overweight and obese women with urinary incontinence

Angela Marinilli Pinto, Miriam Kuppermann, Sanae Nakagawa, Eric Vittinghoff, Rena R. Wing, John W. Kusek, William H. Herman, Leslee L. Subak

Quality of life and emotional burden of primary caregivers: a case–control study of multiple sclerosis patients in Greece

Andreas A. Argyriou, Panagiotis Karanasios, Amalia A. Ifanti, Gregoris Iconomou, Konstantinos Assimakopoulos, Alexandra Makridou, Fotini Giannakopoulou, Nicolaos Makris

A meta-analysis of health state valuations for people with diabetes: explaining the variation across methods and implications for economic evaluation

Tom W. C. Lung, Alison J. Hayes, Andrew Hayen, Andrew Farmer, Philip M. Clarke

Impaired health status and care dependency in patients with advanced COPD or chronic heart failure

• Open Access

Daisy J. A. Janssen, Frits M. E. Franssen, Emiel F. M. Wouters, Jos M. G. A. Schols, Martijn A. Spruit

Impaired renal function is associated with worse self-reported outcomes after kidney transplantation

Luca Neri, Jonathan Dukes, Daniel C. Brennan, Paulo R. Salvalaggio, Susmitha Seelam, Srividya Desiraju, Mark Schnitzler

Oral-health-related quality of life in schoolchildren in an endemic fluorosis area of Mexico

F. C. Aguilar-Díaz, M. E. Irigoyen-Camacho, S. A. Borges-Yáñez

Application of the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) among Taiwanese elderly

• Brief Communication

Hsiao-Ching Kuo, Jen-Hao Chen, Ju-Hui Wu, Tsau-Mau Chou, Yi-Hsin Yang

Parental assessment of adolescent quality of life: can it replace self-assessment?

Rachel M. Taylor, Andy Grieve, Faith Gibson, Anil Dhawan, Linda S. Franck

Modification of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale in Central China

• Open Access
• Brief Communication

Jin Nong Zhang, Bo Peng, Ting Ting Zhao, Min Xiang, Wei Fu, Yi Peng

Development and preliminary testing of the new five-level version of EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L)

• Open Access

M. Herdman, C. Gudex, A. Lloyd, MF. Janssen, P. Kind, D. Parkin, G. Bonsel, X. Badia

Validation of the FACIT-fatigue subscale, selected items from FACT-thrombocytopenia, and the SF-36v2 in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia

James Signorovitch, Andres Brainsky, Kelly M. Grotzinger

Reliability and validity of the Taiwan (Mandarin Chinese) version of the chronic respiratory questionnaire

• Brief Communication

Nai-Hsin Meng, Fei-Na Chen, Sui-Fon Lo, Wei-Erh Cheng

Erratum to: Reliability and validity of the Taiwan (Mandarin Chinese) version of the chronic respiratory questionnaire

• Erratum

Nai-Hsin Meng, Fei-Na Chen, Sui-Foon Lo, Wei-Erh Cheng

Donna Lamping (1953–2011)

• Open Access
• Obituary

Nick Black, Neil Aaronson