quality-of-life evaluation of patients undergoing lumbar discectomy using short form 36

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Commentary on: Quality of Life Evaluation of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Discectomy Using Short Form 36

I have recently reviewed the interesting article by Farzanegan et al. (1), published in the 2011 issue of the Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine: “Quality of life (QOL) evaluation of patients undergoing lumbar discectomy using Short Form 36”. Lumbar discectomy improved both the physical and mental health subscales in patients’ QOL with chronic disc herniation. The mean improvement in physical hea...

Quality-of-Life Evaluation of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Discectomy Using Short Form 36

BACKGROUND Back pain is one of the most common health problems for which physicians are consulted, and it can considerably decrease the quality of life of patients during a great part of their lives. OBJECTIVES Our study was designed for assessing the improvement in the quality of life of patients undergoing lumbar discectomy for chronic low back pain. PATIENTS AND METHODS We included 148 p...

Quality of Life in Psoriatic Patients: A Study Using the Short Form-36

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QOL) is increasingly recognized as an important outcome measure in dermatology. Psoriasis has a great impact on QOL of patients, and has a strong effect on social relations, psychological status, and daily activities. This study describe and compare the impact of different grades of severity of psoriasis on QOL of patients in north of Iran. METHODS This cross-secti...

Evaluation of the short-form 36-item questionnaire to measure health-related quality of life in patients with COPD.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the short-form 36-item questionnaire (SF-36) as an instrument for measuring health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with symptomatic COPD. DESIGN Observational data at a single point in time. SETTING Outpatient pulmonary clinic. PATIENTS Fifty male patients with COPD and no significant comorbidity. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS HRQL was assessed with the...