Background. The quality of care is assessed by set indicators, including life indicators. Dozens countries have approved the EQ-5D questionnaires and developed national / regional
 evaluation systems. We carefully hypothesize that broader usage in real clinical practice local Moscow health system could be incentivized improved through development direct region-specific standard «values set...

BACKGROUND/AIMS An association between metabolic syndrome and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is still controversial. We investigated the association between metabolic syndrome in itself and HRQoL in the Korean adult population. METHODS The study is a cross-sectional analysis of 8,941 adults ≥19 years of age who participated in the 2007 and 2008 Korean National Health and Nutr...

life cycle study of a product is an accepted method for determining the side effects of its production process on environment during its complete life cycle. in this research, the impacts of global warming, acidification, terrestrial eutrophication and fossil resources depletion per unit yield of wheat (ton) on environment were investigated using life cycle assessment method in marvdasht region...

BACKGROUND The English Department of Health has introduced routine collection of patient-reported outcome data for selected surgical procedures to facilitate patient choice and increase hospital accountability. However, using aggregate health outcome scores, such as EQ-5D utilities, for performance assessment purposes causes information loss and raises statistical and normative concerns. OBJE...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Clinimetric properties of the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) in patients with nonspecific chronic low back pain (CLBP) are largely unknown. PURPOSE To study the criterion validity, responsiveness, and minimal clinically important change (MCIC) of EQ-5D in patients with CLBP. STUDY DESIGN Prospective study design carried out in a multispecialist Spine Center in The Netherlands. PATI...

BACKGROUND Limited utility data on patients suffering from overactive bladder (OAB) are available in the literature. The objectives of this study were to estimate utility values in patients with OAB using the generic EQ-5D questionnaire and the OAB-5D disease specific questionnaire, to investigate the relationship between utilities and symptoms, and to evaluate the sensitivity of the two instru...

In this paper, extension of the EQ-logic by the ∆connective is introduced. The former is a new kind of many-valued logic which based on EQ-algebra of truth values, i.e. the algebra in which fuzzy equality is the fundamental operation and implication is derived from it. First, we extend the EQ-algebra by the ∆ operation and then introduce axioms and inference rules of EQ∆-logic. We also prove th...