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Open AccessDevelopment and psychometric evaluation of item banks for memory and attention – supplements to the EORTC CAT Core instrument
Cancer patients may experience a decrease in cognitive functioning before, during and after cancer treatment. So far, the Quality of Life Group of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer...
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Die Übertragbarkeit von IIEF-5 (International Index of Erectile Function 5 Item Short Form) auf EPIC-26 (Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite 26)
In der Vergangenheit dominierte der IIEF‑5 (International Index of Erectile Function) zur Abbildung der erektilen Funktion bei Prostatakrebspatienten. Internationalen Entwicklungen folgend wird in Deutschland ...
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Open AccessPsychometric properties of the PROMIS Preference score (PROPr) in patients with rheumatological and psychosomatic conditions
The PROMIS Preference score (PROPr) is a new generic preference-based health-related quality of life (HRQoL) score that can be used as a health state utility (HSU) score for quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)...
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Open AccessUnklare chronische Schwindelsyndrome – Erfahrungen mit einem interdisziplinären stationären Diagnostikkonzept
Schwindel ist ein häufiges Leitsymptom. Insbesondere Patienten mit chronischen Schwindelsyndromen erleben eine deutliche Beeinträchtigung der Lebensqualität und bei Berufstätigen eine Einschränkung der Arbeits...
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Open AccessPredicting EQ-5D-5L crosswalk from the PROMIS-29 profile for the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
EQ-5D health state utilities (HSU) are commonly used in health economics to compute quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). The EQ-5D, which is country-specific, can be derived directly or by map** from self-re...
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Erratum zu: Empirische Versorgungsforschung in der Notfall- und Akutmedizin
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Empirische Versorgungsforschung in der Notfall- und Akutmedizin
Bislang liegen in Deutschland wenige forschungspraktische Erfahrungen zur Umsetzung von Versorgungsstudien im Notaufnahmekontext vor.
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Open AccessOutcomes and outcome measures used in evaluation of communication training in oncology – a systematic literature review, an expert workshop, and recommendations for future research
Communication between health care provider and patients in oncology presents challenges. Communication skills training have been frequently developed to address those. Given the complexity of communication tra...
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ICD-10 Symptom Rating questionnaire for assessment of psychological comorbidities in patients with chronic tinnitus
Tinnitus frequently occurs alongside psychological comorbidities whose assessment is important for treatment planning and -success. The selection of suitable questionnaires is thus crucial. The present study ...
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ICD-10-Symptom-Rating-Fragebogen zur Beurteilung psychischer Komorbiditäten bei Patienten mit chronischem Tinnitus
Psychische Komorbiditäten bei Tinnituspatienten sind häufig und ihre Diagnostik ist wichtig für Interventionen und Therapieerfolg. Hierbei ist die Auswahl geeigneter Fragebögen entscheidend. Ziel dieser Studie...
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Software Platform for European XFEL: Towards Online Experimental Data Analysis
Large amount of data being generated at large scale facilities like European X-ray Free- Electron Laser (XFEL) requires new approaches for data processing and analysis. One of the most computationally challeng...
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Coma morphology of comet 67P controlled by insolation over irregular nucleus
While the structural complexity of cometary comae is already recognizable from telescopic observations1, the innermost region, within a few radii of the nucleus, was not resolved until spacecraft exploration beca...
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The validation of a computer-adaptive test (CAT) for assessing health-related quality of life in children and adolescents in a clinical sample: study design, methods and first results of the Kids-CAT study
Recently, we developed a computer-adaptive test (CAT) for assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents: the Kids-CAT. It measures five generic HRQoL dimensions. The aims of thi...
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A tidal disruption event in the nearby ultra-luminous infrared galaxy F01004-2237
Tidal disruption events (TDEs), in which stars are gravitationally disrupted as they pass close to the supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies1, are potentially important probes of strong gravity and ...
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Open AccessAddendum to ‘Measurement of the \(t\bar{t}\) production cross-section using \(e\mu \) events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at \(\sqrt{s}\) = 7 and 8 \(\,\mathrm{TeV}\) with the ATLAS detector’
The ATLAS measurement of the inclusive top quark pair ( \(t\bar{t}\) ...
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Open AccessCourse of self-reported symptoms of 342 outpatients receiving medium- versus long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy
The course of self-reported symptoms during medium- versus long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy has rarely been documented for outpatient settings. This observational study describes routine practice of ambul...
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Positive Emotional Experience: Induced by Vibroacoustic Stimulation Using a Body Monochord in Patients with Psychosomatic Disorders: Is Associated with an Increase in EEG-Theta and a Decrease in EEG-Alpha Power
Relaxation and meditation techniques are generally characterized by focusing attention, which is associated with an increase of frontal EEG Theta. Some studies on music perception suggest an activation of Fron...
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Open AccessSubcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group
The pattern of structural brain alterations associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) remains unresolved. This is in part due to small sample sizes of neuroimaging studies resulting in limited statistica...
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On the validity of measuring change over time in routine clinical assessment: a close examination of item-level response shifts in psychosomatic inpatients
Significant life events such as severe health status changes or intensive medical treatment often trigger response shifts in individuals that may hamper the comparison of measurements over time. Drawing from t...
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Open AccessMeasurement of the centrality dependence of the charged-particle pseudorapidity distribution in proton–lead collisions at \(\sqrt{s_{_\text {NN}}} = 5.02\) TeV with the ATLAS detector
The centrality dependence of the mean charged-particle multiplicity as a function of pseudorapidity is measured in approximately 1 $$\...
