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Objectives: To assess the growth of quality of life measures and to examine the availability
of measures across specialties. Design: Systematic searches of electronic databases to …

Parkinson’s disease is a common degenerative neurological condition. A number of general
instruments exist to measure quality of life, but these were not designed to address areas …

Parkinson's disease is a common degenerative neurological condition. A number of general
health status measures exist but these may not address areas salient to specific diseases. …

Randomised controlled trials are widely accepted as the most reliable method of determining
effectiveness, but most trials have evaluated the effects of a single intervention such as a …

… Richard Fitzpatrick is a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he
has been a faculty member since 1994. He is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, a …

The Oxford hip and knee scores have been extensively used since they were first described
in 1996 and 1998. During this time, they have been modified and used for many different …

… All but three items correlated with the total score at r ≥ 0.53 (items 6, 8 and 10 r ≥ 0.45) at
the preoperative assessment. After surgery all 12 items correlated with the total score at r ≥ …

Why conduct a survey? Discussions about how the quality of health care should be measured
increasingly include patient satis-faction as one of the important dimensions.'2 However, a …

Objectives: to briefly outline the development and validation of the Parkinson's Disease
Questionnaire (PDQ-39) and then to provide evidence for the use of the measure as either a …