measures of population health-health expectancies in particular-have become a standard for quantifying and monitoring population health. To date, cross-national comparability of health expectancies is limited, except within the European Union (EU). To advance international comparability, the European Joint Action on Healthy Life Years (JA: EHLEIS) set up an international working group. The work...

BACKGROUND A number of disease-severity and quality-of-life (QoL) instruments have emerged in atopic dermatitis (AD) in the last decade. OBJECTIVES To identify trends in outcomes instruments used in AD clinical trials and to provide a useful summary of the dimensions and validation studies for the most commonly used measures. METHOD All randomized control trials (RCTs) from 1985 to 2010 in ...

The assessment of clinical outcomes is an emerging topic within athletic training and the general health care system. Clinicians, educators, and researchers interested in gaining foundational knowledge related to clinical outcomes assessment will find the AO Handbook: Musculoskeletal Outcomes Measures and Instruments, second expanded edition, to be an easy-to-follow and useful resource. Expande...

Three acoustic admittance measurements (tympanometric peak pressure, peak compensated static acoustic admittance, and tympanometric width) were compared across seven commercially available acoustic immittance systems. Forty-nine adult subjects (45 females and 4 males), 16 to 50 years of age (mean = 27.7 years), with normal middle ear function participated in this investigation. Small but statis...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity of cancer-specific and generic preference-based instruments to discriminate across different measures of cancer severities. METHODS Patients with breast (n = 66), colorectal (n = 57), and lung (n = 61) cancer completed the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the FACT-G, as well as three generic instruments: the EQ-5D, the SF-6D, and the HUI2/3. Disease severity was quantified...

During the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in development of instruments to measure parent food practices. Because these instruments often measure different constructs, or define common constructs differently, an evaluation of these instruments is needed. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to identify existing measures of parent food practices and to assess the qua...

one of the inhuman conducts which may be used in order to take confession from the accused or information from others is torture which has been forbidden and criminalized in the islamic and iranian criminal law. in addition, there are certain international and regional instruments which recommend or require the countries to take appropriate measures in their domestic laws to combat torture. rec...

The exponential development of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) measures in clinical research has led to the creation of the Patient-Reported Outcome and Quality of Life Instruments Database (PROQOLID) to facilitate the selection process of PRO measures in clinical research. The project was initiated by Mapi Research Trust in Lyon, France. Initially called QOLID (Quality of Life Instruments Data...

OBJECTIVES The authors set out to systematically review the research literature in order to identify the anxiety measures most commonly used in the assessment of older adults. Once identified, the literature was reviewed to determine the extent to which these instruments had age-relevant norms and psychometric data supporting their use with older adults. METHOD Literature searches were conduc...