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Quality of life in a broader perspective: Does ASCOT reflect the capability approach?

Quality of Life Research, 2017
PURPOSE: Economic evaluation of services and interventions in care services tends to focus on quality of life(QoL) based on health-related measures such as EQ5D, with a major focus on health and functioning.
M S van Loon, J E Bosmans, Guy Widdershoven   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Evalueren van kwaliteit van leven bij thuiswonende ouderen

Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie, 2021
De groeiende groep thuiswonende ouderen in Nederland vraagt om een goede ondersteuning door inzet van de juiste diensten, zoals huishoudelijke hulp of dagbesteding.
Miriam S. van Loon, Karen M. van Leeuwen, Raymond W.JG. Ostelo, Guy A.M. Widdershoven, Judith Bosmans   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Individual variation in reaction norms but no directional selection in reproductive plasticity of a wild passerine population

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
In the plant–insect–insectivorous bird food chain, directional changes in climate can result in mismatched phenology, potentially affecting selection pressures.
Heung Ying Janet Chik, Catalina Estrada, Yiqing Wang, Priyesha Tank, Alex Lord, Julia Schroeder   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A randomised controlled trial of adjunctive triamcinolone acetonide in eyes undergoing vitreoretinal surgery for open globe trauma - the ASCOT study.

Health Technology Assessment, 2023
Background Eyes sustaining open globe trauma are at high risk of severe visual impairment. Proliferative vitreoretinopathy is the most common cause of retinal detachment and visual loss in eyes with open globe trauma.
D. Charteris, S. Cro, Edward J. Casswell, R. Edwards, V. Ezeofor, B. Anthony, C. Bunce, Elizabeth Robertson, Joanna Kelly, Caroline Murphy, P. Banerjee, Victoria R. Cornelius   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ultra-conserved sequences in the genomes of highly diverse Anopheles mosquitoes, with implications for malaria vector control

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2021
DNA sequences that are exactly conserved over long evolutionary time scales have been observed in a variety of taxa. Such sequences are likely under strong functional constraint and they have been useful in the field of comparative genomics for ...
Samantha M O’Loughlin, Annie J Forster, Silke Fuchs, Tania Dottorini, Tony Nolan, Andrea Crisanti, Austin Burt   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factor structure and construct validity of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Carers (ASCOT-Carer) [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The ASCOT-Carer is a self-report instrument designed to measure social care-related quality of life (SCRQoL). This article presents the psychometric testing and validation of the ASCOT-Carer four response-level interview (INT4) in a sample of
Netten, A.P., Rand, Stacey E., Juliette N. Malley, Forder, Julien, Malley, J.N., Stacey E. Rand, Netten, Ann, Forder, Julien E., Julien E. Forder, Malley, Juliette, Rand, S.E., Ann P. Netten   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Exploring the feasibility and validity of a pragmatic approach to estimating the impact of long-term care: The 'expected' ASCOT method

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2019
Context: Measuring the impact of long-term care (LTC) is essential if we are to allocate limited resources effectively.Objectives: We explored the feasibility and validity of a pragmatic approach to evaluation, known as the counterfactual self-estimation
Juliette Malley, Stacey Rand, Ann Netten, Ann-Marie Towers, Julien Forder   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing an Easy Read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) [PDF]

, 2015
Background: This paper reports the experiences of developing and pre-testing an Easy Read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) for self-report by people with intellectual disabilities.
Whelton, Beckie, Beadle-Brown, Julie, Richardson, Lisa, Turnpenny, Agnes, Crowther, Tanya, Rand, Stacey, Forder, Julien E., Caiels, James, Apps, Joanna   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Randomised controlled trial of adjunctive triamcinolone acetonide in eyes undergoing vitreoretinal surgery following open globe trauma: The ASCOT study

British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023
Background/aims To investigate the clinical effectiveness of adjunctive triamcinolone acetonide (TA) given at the time of vitreoretinal surgery following open globe trauma (OGT).
Edward J. Casswell, S. Cro, V. Cornelius, P. Banerjee, T. M. Zvobgo, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, V. Ezeofor, B. Anthony, S. Shahid, C. Bunce, J. Kelly, C. Murphy, Elizabeth Robertson, D. Charteris   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quality of Life in Older Adult Care Homes: Comparing Office Hours with Out-of-Office Hours

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2019
Context: Poorer mortality rates and quality of care in hospitals outside of office hours is well documented. The literature on adult social (long-term) care, and in particular, care homes, is much less developed.
N. Smith, A.-M. Towers, S. Palmer, G. Collins   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source