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Understanding public attitudes to death talk and advance care planning in Northern Ireland using health behaviour change theory: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Objectives Advance care planning is a key preparatory step in ensuring high-quality palliative and end of life care, and should be considered as a process, beginning with community-level conversations among lay persons. There is, however, indication that
L. Graham-Wisener, A. Nelson, A. Byrne, I. Islam, C. Harrison, J. Geddis, E. Berry   +6 more
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Association of smoking with poor health-related quality of life among health-profession students in China: A 31-university multilevel, multivariable analysis

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2022
Introduction While many studies have confirmed that smoking is causally associated with various diseases, some have found an association between smoking and human functional impairment. Relationships between smoking and poor healthrelated quality of life
Tingzhong Yang, Sihui Peng, Dan Wu, Ian R. H. Rockett   +3 more
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Prevention of health care associated venous thromboembolism through implementing VTE prevention clinical practice guidelines in hospitalized medical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Implementation Science, 2020
Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Numerous VTE prevention clinical practice guidelines are available but not consistently implemented.
Juliana Abboud, Abir Abdel Rahman, Lara Kahale, Martin Dempster, Pauline Adair   +4 more
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“It’s a feeling of complete disconnection”: experiences of existential loneliness from youth to older adulthood

BMC Psychology, 2023
Background Existential loneliness is a feeling which stems from a sense of fundamental separation from others and the world. Although commonly mentioned in the loneliness literature, there is relatively little empirical work on this construct, and ...
Phoebe E. McKenna-Plumley, Rhiannon N. Turner, Keming Yang, Jenny M. Groarke   +3 more
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Sarcopenia and health‐related quality of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2023
The decrease of physical abilities and functional decline that can be caused by musculoskeletal conditions such as sarcopenia, can lead to higher levels of dependency and disability.
C. Beaudart, C. Demonceau, J. Reginster, M. Locquet, M. Cesari, A. C. Cruz Jentoft, O. Bruyère   +6 more
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Oral health related quality of life

Journal of International Society of Preventive and Community Dentistry, 2013
Diseases and disorders that damage the mouth and face can disturb well-being and his self-esteem. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQOL) is a relatively new but rapidly growing notion. The concept of OHRQOL can become a tool to understand and shape not only the state of clinical practice, dental research and dental education but also that of ...
Bennadi, Darshana, Reddy, C. V. K.
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Post‐acute COVID‐19 syndrome (PCS) and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL)—A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Journal of Medical Virology, 2021
There is an established literature on the symptoms and complications of COVID‐19 but the after‐effects of COVID‐19 are not well understood with few studies reporting persistent symptoms and quality of life.
P. Malik, Karan Patel, Candida Pinto, R. Jaiswal, R. Tirupathi, Shreejith Pillai, U. Patel   +6 more
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Impact of Covid-19 on health-related quality of life of patients: A structured review

PLoS ONE, 2021
Introduction Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has led to a global pandemic since its emergence in December 2019. The majority of research into Covid-19 has focused on transmission, and mortality and morbidity associated with the virus.
A.N. Poudel, Shihua Zhu, N. Cooper, P. Roderick, N. Alwan, C. Tarrant, N. Ziauddeen, G. Yao   +7 more
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Oral health‐related quality of life of patients rehabilitated with fixed and removable implant‐supported dental prostheses

Periodontology, 2022
Dental implants have become a mainstream treatment approach in daily practice, and because of their high survival rates over time, they have become the preferred treatment option for prosthetic rehabilitation in many situations.
H. Duong, A. Roccuzzo, A. Stähli, G. Salvi, N. Lang, A. Sculean   +5 more
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Impact of AferBio® on quality of life and chemotherapy toxicity in advanced lung cancer patients (AFERBIO study): protocol study for a phase II randomized controlled trial

BMC Cancer, 2019
Background Lung cancer patients undergoing palliative chemotherapy exhibit many symptoms related to the disease, such as adverse events and infectious complications during treatment, which impacts directly their health-related quality of life (HRQOL ...
Daniel D’Almeida Preto, Mariana Toledo Baston, Camilla Centurion Geraige, Sarah Bertazzi Augusto, Marco Antonio de Oliveira, Augusto Elias Mamere, Gustavo Dix Junqueira Pinto, Josiane Mourão Dias, Pedro Rafael Martins De Marchi, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva, Carlos Eduardo Paiva   +10 more
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