The use of proxy raters of patients' quality of life has been suggested as a means of
facilitating the factoring of quality-of-life considerations explicitly into the medical decision …

An overview is provided of research into the return to work of cancer survivors, examining
both the rate of return to work and factors impacting this return. A series of literature …

Data on physical, psychological, and social functioning of patients with psoriasis have been
presented in many studies. The introduction of quality-of-life questionnaires has made it …

Patients confronted with a life-threatening or chronic disease are faced with the necessity to
accommodate to their illness. An important mediator of this adaptation process isresponse …

The primary objectives of this research were to translate, validate, and generate normative
data on the SF-36 Health Survey for use among Dutch-speaking residents of the …

This reprinted article originally appeared in (Social Science & Medicine, 1999, 48, 1531–
1548). The authors working definition of response shift refers to a change in the meaning of …

The objective of the present study is to compare the QL of a wide range of chronic disease
patients. Secondary analysis of eight existing data sets, including over 15,000 patients, was …

Objective: To investigate which perioperative treatment, ie, laparoscopic or open surgery
combined with fast track (FT) or standard care, is the optimal approach for patients …

Purpose: To compare the validity, reliability and responsiveness of a single, global quality of
life question to multi-item scales. Method: Data were obtained from 83 consecutive patients …

Patient-reported self-assessments, in particular on healthrelated quality of life (QoL), have
become accepted as important—sometimes even the most important—outcomes both for the …