Health-related quality of life is an important patient-reported outcome used in intervention trials and for monitoring the consequences of health status on physical, mental, and social domains. Parkinson's disease is a complex disorder that strongly affects patients' quality of life. Several health-related quality of life tools have been used in Parkinson's disease. A Movement Disorder Society ...

OBJECTIVE To harmonize the collection of nonsurgical clinical and epidemiologic data relevant to endometriosis research, allowing large-scale collaboration. DESIGN An international collaboration involving 34 clinical/academic centers and three industry collaborators from 16 countries on five continents. SETTING In 2013, two workshops followed by global consultation, bringing together 54 lea...

BACKGROUND Malignant transformation in endometriosis is a rare but well known complication. However, detailed mechanisms of malignant transition and tumourigenesis in endometriosis remain unknown. We here describe the case of an endometrioid carcinoma arisen in endometriotic ovarian cyst fulfilling Sampson's criteria for malignant transformation of endometriosis. We compared genetic alterations...

Background: The prevalence of endometriosis in the general population is estimated at 7-10%. Endometriosis is one of the causes of primary and secondary infertility in 30% of women. There are various risk factors for this disease. The present study aimed to determine the association between sexual activity during menstruation and endometriosis. Materials and Methods: This case-control study rec...

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BACKGROUND Endometriosis is a prevalent condition compromising physical and psychosocial health and thus requiring patient-centered care, which is guided by patients' values. This study aimed to find out what the patient's perspective on endometriosis care is and how the patient-centeredness of endometriosis care can be improved. METHODS Electronic databases were searched systematically, and ...

quality of life has emerged as an important concept and outcome in health and health care. this study was performed to evaluate the ability of the health education program to improve quality of life of patients with coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg). in pre operation period, 70 patients were randomized in two groups, experimental and control group (35 patients in each). the demographi...

Introduction Endometriosis may cause a deterioration of daily functioning due to related symptoms such as pain, fatigue and psychological distress. Accordingly, endometriosis jeopardize work ability, suggested in mainly survey-based case-control studies, including clinically established cases at fertile age. This is the first general population-level study evaluate how associated with (1) self-...