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similar between groups. Risk factors for maladjustment include treatment with radiotherapy ormulti-modality treatment, increased length of treatment, younger age, and coping using adisengaged style. Other risk factors include lower education, poor social support and lower levelsof religious b[r]

HRQOL; information that cannot be obtained usingPublished: 27 February 2004Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2004, 2:13Received: 09 January 2004Accepted: 27 February 2004This article is available from: http://www.hqlo.com/content/2/1/13© 2004 Badia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.[r]

egiver distress is an important concern because familycaregivers are assuming more responsibility for care astreatment moves increasingly to the outpatient arena. It isincreasingly important to evaluate quality of life (QOL) offamily caregivers because of their increased respons[r]

immunosuppressive regimen confers the best QOL. Only few studies compared the differentregimens in terms of QOL outcomes. Although limited in number, these studies seem to favournon-cyclosporine based protocols. The main differences that could be observed between patientson cyclosporine versu[r]

Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group. Arch Dis Child FetalNeonatal Ed 1997, 77:F91-94.22. Wolke D, Meyer R: Cognitive status, language attainment andprereading skills of 6-year-old very preterm children andtheir peers: the Bavarian Longitudinal Study. Dev Med ChildNeurol 1999, 41:94-109[r]

relationship between mothers' worries about the illness and their QOL, and iii) determine therelationship between mothers ratings of their own QOL and their child.Method: A total of 87 families took part, constituting 60% of those eligible. The children included58 males and 29 f[r]

Background: Living with a chronic disease, such as primary antibody deficiency, will often haveconsequences for quality of life. Previous quality-of-life studies in primary antibody deficiencypatients have been limited to different treatment methods. We wanted to study ho[r]

4Global Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, USAEmail: Dennis A Revicki* - dennis.revicki@unitedbiosource.com; Alan Menter - amderm@gmail.com; Steven Feldman - sfeldman@wfubmc.edu; Miriam Kimel - miriam.kimel@unitedbiosource.com; Neesha Harnam - n[r]

in Taipei: a psychometric study. MS Thesis Oregon Health SciencesUniversity; 1995. 13. Hägg O, Burckhardt CS, Fritzell P and Nordwall A: Quality of life inchronic low back pain: A comparison with fibromyalgia andthe general population. J Musculoskel Pain 2003, 11:31-38.14. Archenholtz[r]

5Lung and Allergy Research, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SwedenEmail: Elisabeth Ståhl* - elisabeth.stahl@astrazeneca.com; Sven-Arne Jansson - sven-arne.jansson@trasnidaren.nu; Ann-Christin Jonsson - ann-christin.jonsson@nll.se; Klas Svens[r]

Vitiligo is an acquired depigmentation disorder of greatconcern affecting 1–4% of the world population [1–5].Since ancient times patients with vitiligo suffered thesame mental abuses as lepers. In actual fact vitiligo wasreferred as Sweta Kustha meaning "White leprosy". Vitil-igo is di[r]

media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, 1 http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/70Page 2 of 7(page number not for citation purposes)degrees [1]. The prevalence of MS varies with bot[r]

health services is equally important if scarce resources areto be fully and appropriately utilised. If the goal of care isoptimal health, the key marker of success ought to be toascertain individual patients' health care needs (HCN)and tailor services accordingly.Developing a comprehen[r]

tinct from those in adults.[34,35] Furthermore, any evalu-ation of children's HRQL must provide for the children torate their own HRQL.[35](b) How should one evaluate HRQL measures?Clinicians are likely to use patient-reported outcomemeasures routinely only if these tools are as familiar toth[r]

individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia participated (3 men, 3 women). Mean age ofparticipants was 33.3 years (range 20–55), mean length of illness was 12 years (range 2–38 years)and average length of interviews was 47 minutes (range 20–70).Results: Ten HRQoL domains were[r]

of disease or infirmity" [1]. Steadily decreasing maternaland perinatal mortality rates in developed countries overthe last few decades have led to a growing expectation thatpregnancy and childbirth should at the very least result ina live mother and baby. While such outcomes areexpected in m[r]

riasis were found to have a significant negative impact atpatients' workplace as measured by the validated scalesincluding Work Productivity Assessment Index (WPAI),SF-8, Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HADS) and pastmedical/psoriasis history [11]. Absenteeism is a greaterconcern for people sufferi[r]

instrument produced highly significant change scores for 65 trial patients indicating that their kneewas a little or somewhat better at six months. The new instrument had higher effect sizes (range0.86–1.13) and responsiveness statistics (range 1.50–2.13) than the EQ-5D and SF-36.Conclusion: The KQo[r]

this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of recently intro-duced mechanisms for improving the QoS for real-timevideo delivery with respect to the QoE in the presence ofsignificant packet losses. In particular, the effective-ness ofAL-FEC techniques (proposed for inclusion in TV over IP* Co[r]

Accepted: 14 September 2006This article is available from: http://www.hqlo.com/content/4/1/61© 2006 Reinfjell 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),[r]