Health Status Indicators

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Are you at peace?": one item to probe spiritual concerns at the end of life. 
  • A Novel Adaptation of the HOME Inventory for Elders: The Importance of the Home Environment Across the Life Course. 
  • A Vision "Bolt-On" Item Could Increase the Discriminatory Power of the EQ-5D Index Score. 
  • A brief self-administered questionnaire to determine functional capacity (the Duke Activity Status Index). 
  • A comparison of quality of life scores in patients with angina pectoris after angioplasty compared with after medical therapy. Outcomes of a randomized clinical trial. Veterans Affairs Study of Angioplasty Compared to Medical Therapy Investigators. 
  • A comparison of three health status measures in primary care outpatients. 
  • A conceptual model of work and health disparities in the United States. 
  • A global ranking approach to end points in trials of mechanical circulatory support devices. 
  • A health promotion program for medical students. 
  • A review of dyspnea in acute heart failure syndromes. 
  • A validated risk score for in-hospital mortality in patients with heart failure from the American Heart Association get with the guidelines program. 
  • A validation study of a new prognostic index for patients with brain metastases: the Graded Prognostic Assessment. 
  • Accelerated accumulation of health deficits as a characteristic of aging. 
  • Access to essential maternal health interventions and human rights violations among vulnerable communities in eastern Burma. 
  • Acute effect of percutaneous MitraClip therapy in patients with haemodynamic decompensation. 
  • Adjustment of caregivers of pediatric patients with brain tumors: a cross-sectional analysis. 
  • Albumin Versus American Society of Anesthesiologists Score: Which Is More Predictive of Complications Following Total Joint Arthroplasty? 
  • Alcohol and drug dependence symptom items as brief screeners for substance use disorders: results from the Clinical Trials Network. 
  • Alternative statistical approaches to identifying dementia in a community-dwelling sample. 
  • An evaluation of a brief health status measure in elderly veterans. 
  • Analysing the relationship between change in a risk factor and risk of disease. 
  • Analysis of underwriting factors for AAPCC (adjusted average per capita cost). 
  • Analyzing change in recovery patterns in the year after acute hospitalization. 
  • Arab Immigrants: A New Case for Ethnicity and Health? 
  • Assessing patient utilities for varying degrees of low back pain. 
  • Assessing the effectiveness of mental health care in routine clinical practice. Characteristics, development, and uses of patient outcomes modules. 
  • Assessment of Clinical Palliative Care Trigger Status vs Actual Needs Among Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Assessment of quality of life outcomes using the pediatric quality of life inventory survey in prenatally diagnosed congenital diaphragmatic hernia patients. 
  • Association of Health Status Scores With Cardiovascular and Limb Outcomes in Patients With Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease: Insights From the EUCLID (Examining Use of Ticagrelor in Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease) Trial. 
  • Association of neurocognitive function and quality of life 1 year after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. 
  • Associations among family support, family stress, and personal functional health status. 
  • Associations between hemoglobin level, resource use, and medical costs in patients with heart failure: findings from HF-ACTION. 
  • Attention to inpatients' religious and spiritual concerns: predictors and association with patient satisfaction. 
  • Bacterial indicators of risk of diarrhoeal disease from drinking-water in the Philippines. 
  • Baseline predictors of health-related quality of life after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a longitudinal analysis of a multicenter cohort at two and six years. 
  • Body mass index and nine-year mortality in disabled and nondisabled older U.S. individuals. 
  • Can historical and functional risk factors be used to predict fractures in community-dwelling older adults? development and validation of a clinical tool. 
  • Changes in diet quality of American preschoolers between 1977 and 1998. 
  • Changes in health status among participants of the Framingham Heart Study from the 1960s to the 1990s: application of an index of cumulative deficits. 
  • Changes in impairment and function after static progressive splinting for stiffness after distal radius fracture. 
  • Changing health status and health expectancies among older adults in China: gender differences from 1992 to 2002. 
  • Chemotherapy Use, Performance Status, and Quality of Life at the End of Life. 
  • Clinical and angiographic outcomes with sirolimus-eluting stents in total coronary occlusions: the ACROSS/TOSCA-4 (Approaches to Chronic Occlusions With Sirolimus-Eluting Stents/Total Occlusion Study of Coronary Arteries-4) trial. 
  • Clinical assessment and management of toddlers with suspected autism spectrum disorder: insights from studies of high-risk infants. 
  • Cohort and Life-Course Patterns in the Relationship between Education and Health: A Hierarchical Approach 
  • Collecting Mobility Data with GPS Methods to Understand the HIV Environmental Riskscape Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Multi-city Feasibility Study in the Deep South. 
  • Combined Inflammation and Metabolism Biomarker Indices of Robust and Impaired Physical Function in Older Adults. 
  • Common comorbidity scales were similar in their ability to predict health care costs and mortality. 
  • Comparison of methods to estimate health state utilities for ovarian cancer using quality of life data: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study. 
  • Computerized cognitive training in survivors of childhood cancer: a pilot study. 
  • Concurrent validity of the single assessment numerical evaluation and patient-reported functional measures in patients with musculoskeletal disorders: An observational study. 
  • Consideration of ICD-9 code-derived disease-specific safety indicators in CKD. 
  • Consumers who call the Anxiety Disorders Association of America: characteristics and satisfaction. 
  • Control arms in exercise training studies: transitioning from an era of intervention efficacy to one of comparative clinical effectiveness research. 
  • Correlates of health-related quality of life in overweight and obese adults with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Correlation between symptoms and function in older adults with comorbidity. 
  • Correlations between family meals and psychosocial well-being among adolescents. 
  • Coupling direct collection of health risk information from patients through kiosks with decision support for proactive care management. 
  • Credit card debt, stress and key health risk behaviors among college students. 
  • Criteria to determine disability related to multiple sclerosis. 
  • Criterion-related validity of a diarrhea questionnaire in HIV-infected patients. 
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the short musculoskeletal function assessment questionnaire: the SMFA-BR. 
  • Cumulative deficits better characterize susceptibility to death in elderly people than phenotypic frailty: lessons from the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Cumulative index of elderly disorders and its dynamic contribution to mortality and longevity. 
  • Cumulative index of health deficiencies as a characteristic of long life. 
  • Cumulative index of health disorders as an indicator of aging-associated processes in the elderly: results from analyses of the National Long Term Care Survey. 
  • Demographic surveillance and health equity in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Determining clinically important differences in health status measures: a general approach with illustration to the Health Utilities Index Mark II. 
  • Developing a summary measure of medical status. 
  • Developing predictive models for return to work using the Military Power, Performance and Prevention (MP3) musculoskeletal injury risk algorithm: a study protocol for an injury risk assessment programme. 
  • Developing tailored instruments: item banking and computerized adaptive assessment. 
  • Development and Validation of a Model Consisting of Comorbidity Burden to Calculate Risk of Death Within 6 Months for Patients With Suspected Drug-Induced Liver Injury. 
  • Development and validation of the Nasal Obstruction Symptom Evaluation (NOSE) scale. 
  • Development and validation of the Singing Voice Handicap-10. 
  • Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India. 
  • Development of predictive models for all individual questions of SRS-22R after adult spinal deformity surgery: a step toward individualized medicine. 
  • Development of the Child Health Indicator Assessment (CHIA) in a community-based nurse-managed center. 
  • Development, validation, and application of a microsimulation model to predict stroke and mortality in medically managed asymptomatic patients with significant carotid artery stenosis. 
  • Diabetic retinopathy and risk of heart failure. 
  • Dimensionality of measures for severe unilateral ankle arthritis. 
  • Disability and frailty among elderly Canadians: a comparison of six surveys. 
  • Duke Case-Mix System (DUMIX) for ambulatory health care. 
  • Dyspnea review for the palliative care professional: assessment, burdens, and etiologies. 
  • Dyspnoea and worsening heart failure in patients with acute heart failure: results from the Pre-RELAX-AHF study. 
  • Dyspnoea in patients with acute heart failure: an analysis of its clinical course, determinants, and relationship to 60-day outcomes in the PROTECT pilot study. 
  • Early to mid-term results of fixed-bearing total ankle arthroplasty with a modular intramedullary tibial component. 
  • Editorial: Moving the QALY forward or just stuck in traffic? 
  • Effect of Electronic Symptom Monitoring on Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Patients With Metastatic Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of postoperative complications on health and employment following liver transplantation. 
  • Effect of risk stratification on cost-effectiveness of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator. 
  • Effects of epilepsy surgery on quality of life: a controlled study in a Middle Eastern population. 
  • Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of sertraline in patients with late-life depression and comorbid medical illness. 
  • Eliciting benefit-risk preferences and probability-weighted utility using choice-format conjoint analysis. 
  • Estimating importance weights for the IWQOL-Lite using conjoint analysis. 
  • Estimation and validation of a multiattribute model of Alzheimer disease progression. 
  • Evaluation of pedometry as a patient-centered outcome in patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT): a comparison of pedometry and patient reports of symptoms, health, and quality of life. 
  • Evaluation of the Sports Ankle Rating System in young, athletic individuals with acute lateral ankle sprains. 
  • Evaluation of the effects of olopatadine ophthalmic solution, 0.2% on the ocular surface of patients with allergic conjunctivitis and dry eye. 
  • Explaining rural/non-rural disparities in physical health-related quality of life: a study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina. 
  • Exploring the factors that influence functional performance among nursing home residents. 
  • Factors associated with perception of singing voice handicap. 
  • Feeding dysfunction is associated with poor growth and health status in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Fever and human immunodeficiency virus infection as sentinels for emerging mycobacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients >/=15 years old, Bangkok. 
  • Food insecurity and mental disorders in a national sample of U.S. adolescents. 
  • Four methods of estimating the minimal important difference score were compared to establish a clinically significant change in Headache Impact Test. 
  • Frailty as a Risk Predictor of Morbidity and Mortality Following Liver Surgery. 
  • Functional Impairments Mediate Association Between Clinical Fracture Risk and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Older Women. 
  • Functional Status of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients After Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. 
  • Functional associations of "trouble seeing". 
  • Functional disability among elderly blacks and whites in two diverse areas: the New Haven and North Carolina EPESE. Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. 
  • Functional status and the elderly cancer patient. 
  • Gender Disparities in Adult Health: An Examination of Three Measures of Morbidity 
  • Generic versus disease specific health status measures: comparing the sickness impact profile and the arthritis impact measurement scales. 
  • Geriatric assessment for oncologists: rationale and future directions. 
  • Health Status Variation Across Practices in Outpatients With Heart Failure: Insights From the CHAMP-HF (Change the Management of Patients With Heart Failure) Registry. 
  • Health behaviour, depression and religiosity in older patients admitted to intermediate care. 
  • Health consequences of familial longevity influence among the Chinese elderly. 
  • Health impact of head and neck cancer. 
  • Health indices as predictors of cognition among older African Americans: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Health perception, pain, and disability as correlates of anxiety and depression symptoms in primary care patients. 
  • Health status of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy. 
  • Health-Related Quality of Life Scores Underestimate the Impact of Major Complications in Lumbar Degenerative Scoliosis Surgery. 
  • Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Young Adults with Marfan Syndrome. 
  • Health-related Quality of Life (HR-QOL) and Chronic Health Conditions in Survivors of Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) with Down Syndrome (DS): A Report From the Children's Oncology Group. 
  • Health-related quality of life after ileoanal pull-through evaluation and assessment of new health status measures. 
  • Health-related quality of life before and after bariatric surgery in adolescents. 
  • Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma and model for end-stage liver disease exceptions: the more we understand, the more challenging the allocation gets. 
  • Home health and skilled nursing facility use: 1982-90. 
  • Human Performance Optimization Metrics: Consensus Findings, Gaps, and Recommendations for Future Research. 
  • Hydrocarbon emissions and health risks from cookstoves in developing countries. 
  • Identifying the content area for the 51-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire: results from focus groups with visually impaired persons. 
  • Impact of bleeding on mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention results from a patient-level pooled analysis of the REPLACE-2 (randomized evaluation of PCI linking angiomax to reduced clinical events), ACUITY (acute catheterization and urgent intervention triage strategy), and HORIZONS-AMI (harmonizing outcomes with revascularization and stents in acute myocardial infarction) trials. 
  • Impact of different patterns of invasive care on quality of life outcomes in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome: results from the GUSTO-IIb Canada-United States substudy. 
  • Impact of lung transplantation on recipient quality of life: a serial, prospective, multicenter analysis through the first posttransplant year. 
  • Implications of Black Immigrant Health for U.S. Racial Disparities in Health 
  • Implications of the Hemoglobin Glycation Index on the Diagnosis of Prediabetes and Diabetes. 
  • Improvement of cardiovascular risk prediction: time to review current knowledge, debates, and fundamentals on how to assess test characteristics. 
  • Improving the detection of pressure ulcers using the TMI ImageMed system. 
  • Inclusion of Functional Status Measures in the Risk Adjustment of 30-Day Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Report From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology TVT Registry. 
  • Index of Healthy Aging in Chinese Older Adults: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Initial poor quality of life and new onset of dyspepsia: results from a longitudinal 10-year follow-up study. 
  • Intensity of grandparent caregiving and life satisfaction among rural chinese older adults: a longitudinal study using latent difference score analysis. 
  • Investigation of elevated fear-avoidance beliefs for patients with low back pain: a secondary analysis involving patients enrolled in physical therapy clinical trials. 
  • Is there a threshold between peak oxygen uptake and self-reported physical functioning in older adults? 
  • Issues in defining and measuring veteran community reintegration: proceedings of the Working Group on Community Reintegration, VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Conference, Miami, Florida. 
  • Item analysis of the NHANES ADL instrument in a sample of patients reporting frequent severe headaches. 
  • John Henryism, self-reported physical health indicators, and the mediating role of perceived stress among high socio-economic status Asian immigrants. 
  • Lack of psychological resilience: an important correlate for urinary incontinence. 
  • Lagged versus concurrent changes between burnout and depression symptoms and unique contributions from job demands and job resources. 
  • Language barrier and its relationship to diabetes and diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Length of hospital stays among obese individuals. 
  • Leukotriene modifier use and asthma severity: how is a new medication being used by adults with asthma? 
  • Life transitions and health insurance coverage of the near elderly. 
  • Lifespan influences on mid- to late-life cognitive function in a Chinese birth cohort. 
  • Local access to subspecialty care influences the chance of receiving a liver transplant. 
  • Long-term results of debridement and primary repair of peroneal tendon tears. 
  • Longitudinal Monitoring of Pain Associated Distress With the Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome Yellow Flag Tool: Predicting Reduction in Pain Intensity and Disability. 
  • Longitudinal Patterns and Predictors of Depression Trajectories Related to the 2014 Occupy Central/Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. 
  • Longitudinal changes in lower urinary tract symptoms among a cohort of black American men: the Flint Men's Health Study. 
  • Longitudinal evaluation of economic and physical impact of Parkinson's disease. 
  • Maternal health prior to pregnancy and preterm birth among urban, low income black women in Baltimore: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study. 
  • Measurements of health and disease, a transitional perspective. 
  • Measuring disability and function in older women: psychometric properties of the late-life function and disability instrument. 
  • Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in osteoporotic males using the Male OPAQ. 
  • Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Measuring shoulder function with the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index. 
  • Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Measuring the outcomes of care for mental health problems. The case of depressive disorders. 
  • Methods and issues in the projection of population health status. 
  • Millennium Cohort: the 2001-2003 baseline prevalence of mental disorders in the U.S. military. 
  • Minimal versus umbilical waist circumference measures as indicators of cardiovascular disease risk. 
  • Mobile Phone Administration of Hip-Specific Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments Correlates Highly With In-office Administration. 
  • Moderating Effects of Prior Social Resources on the Hospitalizations of Elders Who Become Widowed 
  • Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited. 
  • North American Thrombosis Forum, AF Action Initiative Consensus Document. 
  • One-year health-related quality of life outcomes in weight loss trial participants: comparison of three measures. 
  • Oropharyngeal dysphagia in infants and children with infantile Pompe disease. 
  • Outcomes for endocarditis surgery in North America: a simplified risk scoring system. 
  • PORTRAIT (Patient-Centered Outcomes Related to Treatment Practices in Peripheral Arterial Disease: Investigating Trajectories): Overview of Design and Rationale of an International Prospective Peripheral Arterial Disease Study. 
  • Patient acceptance of two health status measures: the Medical Outcomes Study Short-form General Health Survey and the Duke Health Profile. 
  • Patient beliefs predict response to paroxetine among primary care patients with dysthymia and minor depression. 
  • Patient perception of the effect of treatment with candesartan in heart failure. Results of the candesartan in heart failure: assessment of reduction in mortality and morbidity (CHARM) programme. 
  • Patient preference quality of life measures in dermatology. 
  • Patient-reported quality of life after bariatric surgery: a single institution analysis. 
  • Patterns of preoperative consultation and surgical specialty in an integrated healthcare system. 
  • PedsQL eosinophilic esophagitis module: feasibility, reliability, and validity. 
  • Pelvic support, pelvic symptoms, and patient satisfaction after colpocleisis. 
  • Perceived and actual stroke risk among men with hypertension. 
  • Personalized predictive modeling for patients with Alzheimer's disease using an extension of Sullivan's life table model. 
  • Poor outcome and quality of life in female patients undergoing secondary surgery for recurrent peptic ulcer disease. 
  • Population-based study of medical comorbidity in early dementia and "cognitive impairment, no dementia (CIND)": association with functional and cognitive impairment: The Cache County Study. 
  • Postoperative Liver Failure Risk Score: Identifying Patients with Resectable Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma Who Can Benefit from Portal Vein Embolization. 
  • Prediagnostic serum vitamin D and breast cancer. 
  • Prediction of Residual Risk by Ceramide-Phospholipid Score in Patients With Stable Coronary Heart Disease on Optimal Medical Therapy. 
  • Prediction of incident heart failure in general practice: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. 
  • Predictors of short-term mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy. 
  • Preference-based utility scores for adverse events associated with the treatment of gynecologic cancers. 
  • Preoperative visual acuity among cataract surgery patients and countries' state of development: a global study. 
  • Prognostic value of the GRACE discharge score for predicting the mortality of patients with stable coronary artery disease who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Prospective evaluation of beta-blocker use at the time of hospital discharge as a heart failure performance measure: results from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Provider Perspectives on the Feasibility and Utility of Routine Patient-Reported Outcomes Assessment in Heart Failure: A Qualitative Analysis. 
  • Psychiatric health service areas in the southeast. 
  • Public reporting of cardiac surgery performance: Part 1--history, rationale, consequences. 
  • Quality measurement in adult cardiac surgery: part 2--Statistical considerations in composite measure scoring and provider rating. 
  • Quality of life as a prognostic indicator of survival: A pooled analysis of individual patient data from canadian cancer trials group clinical trials. 
  • Quality of life in China rural-to-urban female migrant factory workers: a before-and-after study. 
  • Quantifying and Classifying Physical Resilience Among Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in coronary heart disease risk factors among WISEWOMAN enrollees. 
  • Recall of three heart disease risk factor diagnoses among low-income women. 
  • Relation of depression to severity of illness in heart failure (from Heart Failure And a Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training [HF-ACTION]). 
  • Relation of prescription nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use to cognitive function among community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Relationship Between Marital Transitions, Health Behaviors, and Health Indicators of Postmenopausal Women: Results from the Women's Health Initiative. 
  • Relationship between CD4 count, viral burden, and quality of life over time in HIV-1-infected patients. 
  • Relationship between patient satisfaction with inpatient care and hospital readmission within 30 days. 
  • Relationship of health-related quality of life to health care utilization and mortality among older adults. 
  • Relative validity of the modified American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (M-ASES) questionnaire using item response theory. 
  • Relevant concepts of functioning for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus identified in a Delphi exercise of experts and a literature review. 
  • Religious attitudes and practices of hospitalized medically ill older adults. 
  • Religious coping and health status in medically ill hospitalized older adults. 
  • Responsiveness and minimally important difference of SF-6D and EQ-5D utility scores for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Responsiveness of the National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life instrument to surgical correction of refractive error. 
  • Responsiveness of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire to changes in visual acuity: findings in patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization--SST Report No. 1. 
  • Responsiveness to Change in PROMIS(®) Measures among Children with Asthma: A Report from the PROMIS(®) Pediatric Asthma Study. 
  • Return to preinjury sports participation following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: contributions of demographic, knee impairment, and self-report measures. 
  • Revision of the venous clinical severity score: venous outcomes consensus statement: special communication of the American Venous Forum Ad Hoc Outcomes Working Group. 
  • Risk communication: coping with imperfection. 
  • Risk factors for neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia: the Cache County Study. 
  • Safety and side-effect profile of intrathecal morphine in a diverse patient population undergoing total knee and hip arthroplasty. 
  • Self-rated health in Pakistan: results of a national health survey. 
  • Self-reported health parameters compared with clinician measurements: methods in practice-based research. 
  • Significance of tertiary Gleason pattern 5 in Gleason score 7 radical prostatectomy specimens. 
  • Social coping strategies associated with quality of life decrements among psoriasis patients. 
  • Socially isolated children 20 years later: risk of cardiovascular disease. 
  • Spatial analysis of body mass index and smoking behavior among WISEWOMAN participants. 
  • Stratification of complexity improves the utility and accuracy of outcomes analysis in a Multi-Institutional Congenital Heart Surgery Database: Application of the Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery (RACHS-1) and Aristotle Systems in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Stress and long-term survivors of brain cancer. 
  • Submacular surgery trials randomized pilot trial of laser photocoagulation versus surgery for recurrent choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration: II. Quality of life outcomes submacular surgery trials pilot study report number 2. 
  • Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in 8 countries. 
  • Surrogate assessment of coronary artery disease patients' functional capacity. 
  • Survival analysis in amputees based on physical independence grade achievement. 
  • Survival of patients undergoing rescue percutaneous coronary intervention: development and validation of a predictive tool. 
  • Temperature during coronary artery bypass surgery affects quality of life. 
  • Temporal trends in self-reported functional limitations and physical disability among the community-dwelling elderly population: the Framingham heart study. 
  • The APOE-E4 allele and the risk of functional decline in a community sample of African American and white older adults. 
  • The Adherence eValuation After Ischemic Stroke Longitudinal (AVAIL) registry: design, rationale, and baseline patient characteristics. 
  • The Duke Abdominal Assessment Scale: initial experience. 
  • The Duke-UNC Health Profile: an adult health status instrument for primary care. 
  • The Effect of Frailty Index on Early Outcomes after Combined Colorectal and Liver Resections. 
  • The Self-Management of OsteoArthritis in Veterans (SeMOA) Study: design and methodology. 
  • The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy longevity at the oldest-old ages in China. 
  • The clinical value of a cluster of patient history and observational findings as a diagnostic support tool for lumbar spine stenosis. 
  • The dynamics of population aging: demography and policy analysis. 
  • The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation. 
  • The impact of psychologic factors on measurement of functional status. Assessment of the sickness impact profile. 
  • The influence of depression on cognitive decline in community-dwelling elderly persons. 
  • The limited reliability of the Ramsay scale. 
  • The neuropsychological profile of vascular cognitive impairment--no dementia: comparisons to patients at risk for cerebrovascular disease and vascular dementia. 
  • The reliability of a self-reported measure of disease, impairment, and function in persons with spinal cord dysfunction. 
  • The value of patient-reported health status in predicting short-term outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • The wellbeing of the elderly. Approaches to multidimensional assessment. 
  • Thirteen dimensions of health in elderly Sri Lankans: results from a National Sri Lanka Aging Survey. 
  • Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Three year's experience with the Stretta procedure: did it really make a difference? 
  • Tibial stress fractures in an active duty population: long-term outcomes. 
  • Tolerability of the Oscar 2 ambulatory blood pressure monitor among research participants: a cross-sectional repeated measures study. 
  • Translating personality psychology to help personalize preventive medicine for young adult patients 
  • Undermet needs for assistance in personal activities of daily living among community-dwelling oldest old in China from 2005 to 2008. 
  • Undiagnosed prediabetes among food insecure adults. 
  • Use of a modifier reduces inconsistency in the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification in parturients. 
  • Utility scores and treatment preferences for clinical early-stage cervical cancer. 
  • Validation of the activities assessment scale in women undergoing pelvic reconstructive surgery. 
  • Validity and reliability of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score with C-reactive protein (ASDAS-CRP) and Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) in Singapore. 
  • Validity and reliability of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment scale among primary informal caregivers for older persons in Singapore. 
  • Validity of the multidimensional outcome expectations for exercise scale in continuing-care retirement communities. 
  • Valuing health as development: going beyond gross domestic product. 
  • Valuing morbidity: an integration of the willingness-to-pay and health-status index literatures. 
  • Vascularized pedicle bone grafting for nonunions of the tarsal navicular. 
  • Vision-related quality of life in persons with unilateral branch retinal vein occlusion using the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire. 
  • Visual function more than 10 years after optic neuritis: experience of the optic neuritis treatment trial. 
  • Weathering in Detroit: Place, Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty as Conceptually Fluctuating Social Constructs Shaping Variation in Allostatic Load. 
  • What Risk Factors Are Associated With Musculoskeletal Injury in US Army Rangers? A Prospective Prognostic Study. 
  • Who consults with dyspepsia? Results from a longitudinal 10-yr follow-up study. 
  • [Central health indicators for municipalities and countries. Examples from the USA]. 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Science & Society
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Whetten, Kathryn, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, School of Nursing
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine