The aim of this study was to examine the quality of life (QoL) in 40 Croatian metastatic melanoma patients who had completed at least first-line treatment and to see if there was a correlation between QoL parameters and serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). LDH levels were measured and all patients clinically examined between April and September 2013. Two QoL questionnaires were used for patient s...

Generic health status measures are designed to broadly assess the concepts of health, disability, and quality of life. Although generic health status measures are often less responsive to changes in specific conditions than disease-specific instruments, they are important for broad comparisons of the relative impact of different conditions or treatments on the health of the population. The shor...

BACKGROUND This study sought to ascertain to what degree health-related quality of life (HRQL) in the City of Madrid was affected by each of the most frequent chronic health conditions, and the specific quality-of-life (QL) domains on which such health conditions had the greatest impact, taking co-morbidity and socio-demographic variables into account. METHODS A descriptive, analytical, cross...

OBJECTIVES We compared four health status measures for the evaluation of quality of life after hip fracture. METHODS Two hundred and eight elderly hip fracture patients were followed up to 4 months after hospital admission. We used two interviewer-administered instruments (the Rehabilitation Activities Profile (RAP) and the Barthel Index (BI)) that focus on functional status, and two self-ass...

OBJECTIVE To study the impact of cognitive impairment and severity of dementia on the quality of life (QoL) of patients and their caregivers. DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional study within the NAtional Dementia Economic Study. SETTING 231 general practices and 15 specialist clinics in Belgium. SUBJECTS 605 patients aged > or = 65 years: 106 referent subjects without cognitive impairment ...

BACKGROUND The COOP-WONCA charts comprise six scales designed to measure functional health status in primary care. AIM A study was undertaken to describe the acceptability, distribution of chart scores, construct validity, test-retest reliability and sensitivity to change when these charts were used in the United Kingdom. METHOD For acceptability, distribution of scores and construct validi...