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Life-space, frailty, and health-related quality of life

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Abstract Introduction Life-space and frailty are closely linked to health-related quality of life and understanding their inter-relationship could indicate potential intervention targets for improving quality of life.
Chitalu, Petronella, Tsui, Alex, Searle, Samuel D, Davis, Daniel   +3 more
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Health-related quality of life in people with aphasia: Implications for fluency disorders quality of life research [PDF]

, 2010
It is increasingly important that clinicians address the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of adults with communication disorders in clinical practice.
Agrell, American Psychiatric Association, Appelros, Bays, Bell, Chia, Craig, Craig, Cruice, Cruice, Cruice, Cruice, Cruice, Dalton, Franic, Geyh, Hagen, Hampton, Hayes, Hilari, Hilari, Holland, Iverach, Jaracz, Jonkman, Jönsson, Kauhanen, Kauhanen, Kertesz, Kim, King, Klompas, Labi, Lai, Le Dorze, Leeds, Linda Worrall, Louise Hickson, Madden, Madeline Cruice, Mallinson, McDowell, Naess, Namasivayam, Niemi, Ross, Salter, Sanson-Fisher, Sarno, Schepers, Sheik, Simmons-Mackie, Stark, Townend, Ware, Ware, Williams, Yaruss, Yaruss, Zemva   +59 more
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Health-related quality of life after colorectal cancer in England: a patient-reported outcomes study of individuals 12 to 36 months after diagnosis [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose: This population-level study was conducted to define the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of individuals living with and beyond colorectal cancer (CRC) and to identify factors associated with poor health outcomes. Patients and Methods: All
Corner, Jessica, Downing, Amy, Feltbower, Richard, Finan, Paul, Foster, Claire, Glaser, Adam, Hunt, Katherine, Kind, Paul, Lawton, Sarah, Morris, Eva, Recio-Saucedo, Alejandra, Richards, Mike, Sebag-Montefiore, David, Simon, Michael, Thomas, James, Vernon, Sally, Wagland, Richard, Wood, Charlotte, Wright, Penny   +18 more
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Gender differences in health-related quality of life following total laryngectomy [PDF]

, 2010
Background: The impact of a total laryngectomy on an individual's life has primarily been measured from a male viewpoint reflecting the demographics of a diagnosis of laryngeal cancer.
Gibson, S., Hilari, K., Lee, M. T.
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Health-related Quality of Life in Emphysema [PDF]

Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2008
Abstract Patients with emphysema may experience reduced health-related quality of life (HRQOL). HRQOL measures have evolved from two different measurement traditions: psychometric theory and decision theory. Psychometric methods typically create a profile of outcomes, whereas decision theory methods offer a summary score on a ...
Robert M, Kaplan, Andrew L, Ries
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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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Physical activity and health related quality of life [PDF]

, 2012
Copyright @ 2012 Anokye et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution,
A Briggs, AC Cameron, Colin Green, D Gujarati, DCMS, DH, E Lindholm, EI Lubetkin, EQ Group, F Soltoft, FB Gillison, FJ Penedo, G O'Donovan, J Sorensen, K Burstrom, M Hamer, N Beyler, N Luo, Nana Kwame Anokye, NICE, P Dolan, Paul Trueman, PC Austin, R Bize, R Brand, R Craig, Rod S Taylor, S Beale, S Chatterjee, S Morris, S Petrou, S Saxena, SI Saarni, StataCorp, T Pavey, TH Sach, Toby G Pavey, W Greene, WJ Rejeski   +38 more
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Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes in Pediatric Neurosurgery: Literature Review [PDF]

, 2019
Background Improving value in healthcare means optimizing outcomes and minimizing costs. The emerging pay-for-performance era requires understanding of the effect of healthcare services on health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
Desai, Virendra R., Gadgil, Nisha, Lam, Sandi K., Raskin, Jeffrey S., Saad, Shahbaz   +4 more
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Vascular access-specific health-related quality of life impacts among hemodialysis patients: qualitative development of the hemodialysis access-related quality of life (HARQ) instrument. [PDF]

, 2020
BackgroundEnd stage kidney disease and hemodialysis dependence are associated with impairments in health-related quality of life (HRQOL), which may be related to vascular access (VA). Few HRQOL measures are VA-specific and none differentiate HRQOL impact
Gage, Shawn M, Hays, Ron D, Himmelfarb, Jonathan, Lithgow, Ted, Nicholson, Gina, Nordyke, Robert J, Peipert, John Devin, Rivara, Matthew B, Woo, Karen   +8 more
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Health-related quality of life is low in secondary school children in Fiji [PDF]

, 2012
The health and wellbeing of children in lower-income countries is the focus of much international effort, yet there has been very little direct measurement of this. Objective.
Goundar, Ramneek, Mavoa, Helen, Moodie, Marjory, Petersen, Solveig, Swinburn, Boyd, Waqa, Gade   +5 more
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