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Published: 6 August 2008Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:58 doi:10.1186/1477-7525-6-58Received: 8 December 2007Accepted: 6 August 2008This article is available from: http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/58© 2008 Cano et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distribute[r]

24. Oken M, Creech R, Tormey D, Horton J, Davis T, McFadden E, et al: Toxicityand response criteria of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Am JClin Oncol 1982, 5:649-655.25. Curran D, Bacchi M, Schmitz SFH, Molenburghs G, Sylvester RJ: Identifyingthe types of missingness in quality of life data[r]

Differential item functioning analyses in this study were limited by the small sample sizes in the clinic completion group, which contained only twenty patients. Small numbers are apparent in this group due to the difficulties of administering a suite of questionnaires, including a 52-item fatigue <[r]

BioMed CentralPage 1 of 5(page number not for citation purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearchValidity and internal consistency of a Hausa version of the Ibadan knee/hip osteoarthritis outcome measureAdesola C Odole* and Aderonke O AkinpeluAddress: Department of Physio[r]

keley CA: University of California Press; 1961:321-334. 17. Brazier JE, Czoski-Murray C, Roberts J, Brown M, Symonds T, Kelle-her C: Estimation of a preference-based index from a condi-tion specific measure: the King's Health Questionnaire. MedDecis Making 2008, 28:113-126.18. MVH Group: The[r]

study was conducted using patients presenting withspinal complaints to the RMIT University (Melbourne,Australia) chiropractic teaching clinics. For this observa-tional study the patient’spresentingcomplaintwasnotlimited to a specific condition. Any patient who fulfilledthe inclusion criteria was inv[r]

OMERACT, and more recently Barton et al [18] toHarrison et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:21http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/21Page 6 of 8include at least one measure of HRQoL, specifically onewhich allows the estimation of u tilities, in all relevantclinical studies.Abbreviat[r]

evidence of the protective role of physical activity for the prevention and management of chronic diseases has been well established over recent decades [1, 2]. Physical activity is a multidimensional construct and defined as “any bodily movement produced by the contraction of skeletal muscle that i[r]

for older adults. However, only three suitable instru-ments, the EMS, HABAM and PPME were found for meas-uring and monitoring changes in mobility for olderpeople. Clinimetric evaluation identified that each ofthese instruments has significant limitations.Older acute medical patients have a very broa[r]

the proportion of patients in the investigated group that typically achieve asuccessful outcomethe number and type of predictor factors subjected to examination, andtheir prevalence within the group under investigationthe specific pathology or surgical procedure under investigation and thedefining c[r]

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(Jx = v 0-;Var (x) (4.4)It is customary to denote population parameters by Greek letters (e.g., J-t, and sample estimates by Latin letters (e., is). Another often used conven-tion is to represent sample estimates by Greek letters topped by a caret r);thus and iT both denote a sample estimate of (T.[r]

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High levels of commitment are related to fewer absences and lower resignation rates.lower resignation rates.© 2007 Prentice Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 14–18Psychological Factors (cont’d)Psychological Factors (cont’d)•Organizational CommitmentOrganizational CommitmentIs the degree to which an e[r]

Introduction to Geometric Measure TheoryUrs LangApril 20, 2005AbstractThese are the notes to four one-hour lectures I delivered atthe spring school “Geometric Measure Theory: Old and New” thattook place in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, from April 3–8, 2005 (seehttp://igat.epfl.ch/diable[r]

67, or about 2/3. Thus, in a large population of patients, two-thirds wouldderive more benefit from S than from E. Viewed from this perspective, thesignificance test, with its low "P value" (ofO.OOO~ in our case) is seen to bethoroughly misleading.The proper treatment of a problem of this type is to[r]