Background: Patient self reported measures for Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and mental distress are frequently used to evaluate outcome of therapeutic strategies in cardiac patients.

They provide a structured way to measure the quality of life for patients. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) specifically capture the patient’s direct perspective on disease burden, treatment ...

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes is an Open Access ... approaches and studies on psychometric properties of HRQOL measures, including cultural validation of instruments. The journal will ...

Trialists should focus less on physician-defined outcomes and more on what matters to patients, Mario Gaudino says.

Women with MS who have a close friend to confide in have better physical and mental health than those without this kind of ...

Agency supports primary and novel secondary and exploratory endpoints proposed for Phase 3 Trial(s) Opportunity to utilize ...

Researchers examined patient-reported outcomes for quality of life following Mohs micrographic surgery for facial skin cancer.

Higher health literacy promoted patient activation and, subsequently, improved health-related quality of life among chronic disease patients.

It will cover the core psychometric and statistical methods used in scale construction and the development of multi-item patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). The course will be interactive and ...

Using examples from the field of anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation, this review provides sports and health practitioners with a comprehensive, user-friendly, guide to selecting outcome ...