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Predictors for Lower Quality of Life in the HAART Era Among HIV-Infected Men
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2006In the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), maximizing health-related quality of life (QOL) has become a high priority of long-term management of HIV-infected individuals. Modifiable determinants of lower QOL should be identified for interventions specifically targeted to the HAART-using individuals to improve their QOL.To identify the ...
Chenglong, Liu +5 more
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Internet Use and Lower Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Effect of Environmental Quality Perception
Ecological Economics, 2020Abstract This paper studies the impact of Internet use on life satisfaction, and the channel through which this impact occurs by using data from the 2016 China Family Panel Studies. Employing seemingly unrelated regression to estimate mediation models, we find that in China, Internet use makes people significantly less satisfied with the ...
Jiaping Zhang, Mingwang Cheng, Ning Yu
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Journal of Surgical Oncology, 1986
The choice of palliative therapy in patients with carcinoma of the lower esophagus and cardia is mainly between irradiation and surgery. The present report is a retrospective analysis of 40 consecutive patients who recovered after resection of the tumor. The operation was considered to be palliative in all patients. The ability to swallow in proportion
K, Welvaart, P L, de Jong
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The choice of palliative therapy in patients with carcinoma of the lower esophagus and cardia is mainly between irradiation and surgery. The present report is a retrospective analysis of 40 consecutive patients who recovered after resection of the tumor. The operation was considered to be palliative in all patients. The ability to swallow in proportion
K, Welvaart, P L, de Jong
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[The quality of life of patients with chronic lower limb ischemia].
Angiologiia i sosudistaia khirurgiia = Angiology and vascular surgery, 2004Sixty-six patients with chronic lower limb ischemia (CLLI) were examined. The mean age of the patients constituted 55.98+/-7.7 (from 39 to 75 years). There were 64 (96.9%) men and 2 (3.1%) women. According to the runoff, the patients were distributed in the following way. Twenty-eight (41.8%) patients demonstrated good runoff, 23 (34.855) satisfactory,
K G, Balmasov +3 more
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Quality of life in bone tumor patients comparing limb salvage and amputation of the lower extremity
Journal of Surgical Oncology, 1992AbstractIn 33 long‐term survivors of lower extremity bone cancer quality‐of‐life data were studied following limb salvage compared to amputation. Self‐report questionnaires, semistructured interviews and visual analog scales were used to measure psychoneurotic and somatical distress, activities of daily living, self‐esteem, and adjustment to illness ...
Aleida Postma +7 more
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[The quality of life of patients with atherosclerosis of lower extremities - 15-year observation].
Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego, 2022An improving quality of life of a patient seems to be the primary goal of contemporary medicine facing the controversies arising over the duration of persistent therapy, on the one hand, and mounting costs of health care, on the other.The aim of the study was to assess the applicability of the SF-36 (Short Form Health Survey) quality-of-life scale to ...
Katarzyna, Gniadek-Olejniczak +2 more
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Urology, 2003
Fast control of bothersome symptoms and improvement in the patient's quality of life (QOL) are important treatment goals in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Although voiding symptoms are most common, storage symptoms are most bothersome, interfere the most with daily life activities, and have a major ...
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Fast control of bothersome symptoms and improvement in the patient's quality of life (QOL) are important treatment goals in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Although voiding symptoms are most common, storage symptoms are most bothersome, interfere the most with daily life activities, and have a major ...
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Health-related quality-of-life scales specific for chronic venous disorders of the lower limbs
Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders, 2015We conducted a systematic review of the literature about quality-of-life (QOL) scales in chronic venous disorders (CVDs) comprising leg ulcers to identify the respective advantages and deficits of existing tools.A research protocol was built following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement and the PICO
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Quality of Life of Patients with Secondary Lymphedema of the Lower Extremities
Flebologiia, 2021R.E. Kalinin, I.A. Suchkov, D.A. Maksaev
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[Quality of life after orthopedic surgery of the lower limbs. A new approach].
Revue de chirurgie orthopedique et reparatrice de l'appareil moteur, 1997Measuring quality of life is a new approach of interest to all health professionals involved in orthopedic surgery. This paper is an introduction to the multidimensional concept of health related quality of life. Various types of measurement instruments are described: first the psychometric questionnaires, distinguishing generic measures useful in ...
F, Guillemin, D, Mainard
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