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Open Access5-Year health-related quality of life outcome in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is severely impaired in persons with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH). The HRQoL improves in a number of patients after the placement of a cerebrospinal fl...
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Open AccessLong-term quality of life after surgery of head and neck cancer with microvascular reconstruction: a prospective study with 4.9-years follow-up
The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of head and neck cancer patients with microvascular surgery. Surgical treatment causes great changes in patient HRQoL....
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Open AccessCost-analysis and quality of life after laparoscopic and robotic ventral mesh rectopexy for posterior compartment prolapse: a randomized trial
The aim of this study was to assess, whether robotic-assistance in ventral mesh rectopexy adds benefit to laparoscopy in terms of health-related quality of life (HRQoL), cost-effectiveness and anatomical and f...
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Open AccessAbstracts from Hydrocephalus 2016
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Trends in the 15D health-related quality of life over the first year following diagnosis of head and neck cancer
Management of head and neck cancer influences both physical and mental wellbeing. Measuring the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is important, as various treatment modalities are associated with signific...
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Comparing Effectiveness of Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder in Communal Mental Health Care: The Oulu BPD Study
The implementation of effective psychotherapies in community mental health care is challenging. This study aimed to create a well-structured and easily applicable treatment model for patients with severe borde...
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Health-related quality of life of head and neck cancer patients with successful oncological treatment
Oncological treatment of head and neck carcinoma is associated with high morbidity. Measuring of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is crucial in this patient group but there is no consensus on which measu...
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The cost-effectiveness of risedronate in the treatment of osteoporosis: an international perspective
Risedronate, a bisphosphonate for treatment and prevention of osteoporosis, has been shown in several clinical trials to reduce the risk of fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. The cost-effecti...
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Health-related quality of life in type 1 diabetes without or with symptoms of long-term complications
Objective: To measure subjective health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with type 1 diabetes and describe the influence of symptoms of diabetes-related long-term complications on HRQoL. Methods: The ...
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Do physicians accept quality of life and utility measurement?
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Comparison of health-related quality of life in three subgroups of spinal cord injury patients
Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was evaluated in three subgroups of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients: (1) persons who had sustained a pediatric SCI (mean time from injury 20 years, age at injury 11.3 ye...
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Health-related quality of life of patients with genetic skeletal dysplasias
While medical knowledge on genetic skeletal dysplasias has expanded, very little is known about the patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL). To test the validity and sensitivity of the fifteen and si...
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Later health-related quality of life in adults who have sustained spinal cord injury in childhood
The outcome in terms of health-related quality of life (HRQL) in pediatric spinal cord injury (SCI) was studied in 36 adults who had sustained an SCI in childhood. The patients were interviewed and clinically ...
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Quality of life in pre-adolescence: A 17-dimensional health-related measure (17D)
Although interest in the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children has increased in the last years, validated methods for assessing the HRQOL-and especially the perceived HRQOL—of children have been m...
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Quality of life in early adolescence: A sixteendimensional health-related measure (16D)
While data on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of adults are accumulating, very little is known about the HRQOL—and especially the perceived HRQOL—of children. In our study we introduced a 16-dimensi...
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Quality of life and functional ability in hip and knee replacements: A prospective study
The impact of hip (THA) and knee arthroplasty (TKA) on patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL), physical ability and functioning was assessed in a two year follow-up study of 276 hip and 176 knee pati...
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Redefining Incentives in Primary Medical Care: The Finnish Demonstration Project
How best to organize primary health care services within a publicly operated health system has remained an unresolved question. Despite continuing emphasis in northern Europe upon the primary care as the backb...
