AIM To investigate the ability of two standard quality of life (QOL) questionnaires - The Short Form (36-item) Health Survey (SF-36) and The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 (EORTC QLQ C30) to evaluate QOL in patients with chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) graded according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus criter...

Measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQL) is essential to quantify the subjective burden of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in survivors. We performed a systematic review of HRQL studies in TBI to evaluate study design, instruments used, methodological quality, and outcome. Fifty-eight studies were included, showing large variation in HRQL instruments and assessment time points used. Th...

Our purpose was to construct and validate a new score taking into consideration the flaws of existing scores. Methods: A new score named Visual-Analogue-Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS FA) with the following features was constructed: questionnaire based on 20 subjective questions, Visual-Analogue-Scale (VAS) based rating, computerized evaluation. The score was validated in 121 subjects. For validatio...

F rom the patient’s perspective, disease severity is gauged by its impact on health related quality of life (HRQL), whereas medical practitioners tend to focus on clinical parameters such as symptoms, signs, and investigations. HRQL assessment can complement clinical evaluation but has not been widely incorporated into routine clinical practice, perhaps because of an association with research, ...

STUDY DESIGN Cized, single-blind, controlled trial. OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of the Arthrokinematic approach (AKA)-Hakata (H) method for chronic low back pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The AKA-H method is used to manually treat abnormalities of intra-articular movement. METHODS One hundred eighty-six patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain randomly received either t...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study is to translate and validate the "Hip and Knee Outcomes Questionnaire", developed in English, into Spanish. The 'Hip and Knee Outcomes Questionnaire is a questionnaire planned to evaluate the impact in quality of life of any problem related to the human musculoskeletal system. 10 scientific associations developed it. METHODS The questionnaire underw...

OBJECTIVE To develop a valid and reliable outcome measure for patients with varicose veins. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey of patients with varicose veins. SETTING Surgical outpatient departments and training general practices in Grampian region. SUBJECTS 373 patients, 287 of whom had just been referred to hospital for their varicose veins and 86 who had just consulted a general pract...