Journal ArticleQual Life Res · September 2024
PURPOSE: Performance status is an important concept in oncology, but is typically clinician-reported. Efforts are underway to include patient-reported measures in cancer care, which may improve patient symptoms, quality of life and overall survival. The pu ...
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Journal ArticleJ Rheumatol · August 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Telehealth has been proposed as a safe and effective alternative to in-person care for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The purpose of this study was to evaluate factors associated with telehealth appropriateness in outpatient RA encounters. METHODS: ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · July 2024
PURPOSE: The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has identified physical functioning (PF) as a core patient-reported outcome (PRO) in cancer clinical trials. The purpose of this study was to identify PF PRO measures (PROMs) in adult cancer populations and clas ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · July 2024
PURPOSE: Successful patient-focused drug development involves selecting and measuring outcomes in clinical trials that are important to patients. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration's definition of clinical benefit includes how patients feel, function, or ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Oncol Pract · June 2024
PURPOSE: Financial toxicity is a contributor to the psychosocial burden of cancer care. There is no consensus measure of financial toxicity; however, recent studies have adopted the Comprehensive Score for Financial Toxicity (COST). Despite its growing pop ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Adv · June 2024
BACKGROUND: Cardiogenic shock (CS) in the setting of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Frailty is a common comorbidity in patients with cardiovascular disease and is also associated with adverse outcomes. Th ...
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Journal ArticlePatient · May 2024
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe quality of life for patients with chronic cough (CC) and identify meaningful attributes that affect patient treatment preferences to inform the design of a quantitative preference study. METHODS: Eligible patients ( ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Med · April 3, 2024
(1) Background: Cardiogenic shock (CS) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Frailty and cardiovascular diseases are intertwined, commonly sharing risk factors and exhibiting bidirectional relationships. The relationship of frailty and non-acute ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Rheumatol · March 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explore the factors associated with rheumatology providers' perceptions of telehealth utility in real-world telehealth encounters. METHODS: From September 14, 2020 to January 31, 2021, 6 providers at an academic medical center ...
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Journal ArticlePatient Educ Couns · February 2024
OBJECTIVE: Describe clinicians' perspectives of facilitators and barriers to eliciting physical function goals from patients with multiple chronic conditions pre- and post-surgery. METHODS: Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with clinici ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open Respir Res · January 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: Chronic cough is common, negatively affects quality of life and has limited treatment options. Inhibition of purinergic signalling is a promising therapeutic approach but is associated with taste-related adverse effects. Little is known about t ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · January 2024
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly being used as an assessment and monitoring tool in clinical practice. However, patient adherence to PROMs completions are typically not well documented or explained in published studies ...
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Journal ArticleLupus Sci Med · December 17, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Manifestations of SLE can be categorised as type 1 (classic signs and symptoms of SLE) or type 2 (fatigue, widespread pain and brain fog with an unclear relationship to inflammation). While measures of type 1 SLE activity exist, most current phy ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Med · August 7, 2023
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) impacts of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) have been captured in clinical studies using patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures (PROMs) that are validated for other diseases. However, the validity evidence t ...
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ConferenceApplied Research in Quality of Life · August 1, 2023
Women with heart failure report worse health-related quality of life on average, than men. This may result from actual differences in care or differing interpretations of and responses to survey questions. We investigated potential gender-based differentia ...
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Journal ArticleJMIR Form Res · May 24, 2023
BACKGROUND: Granville and Vance counties have some of the highest opioid-related death rates in North Carolina, and have significant unmet needs with regard to opioid treatment. Medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is the most effective evidence-based ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · September 2024
PURPOSE: Performance status is an important concept in oncology, but is typically clinician-reported. Efforts are underway to include patient-reported measures in cancer care, which may improve patient symptoms, quality of life and overall survival. The pu ...
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Journal ArticleJ Rheumatol · August 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Telehealth has been proposed as a safe and effective alternative to in-person care for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The purpose of this study was to evaluate factors associated with telehealth appropriateness in outpatient RA encounters. METHODS: ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · July 2024
PURPOSE: The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has identified physical functioning (PF) as a core patient-reported outcome (PRO) in cancer clinical trials. The purpose of this study was to identify PF PRO measures (PROMs) in adult cancer populations and clas ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · July 2024
PURPOSE: Successful patient-focused drug development involves selecting and measuring outcomes in clinical trials that are important to patients. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration's definition of clinical benefit includes how patients feel, function, or ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Oncol Pract · June 2024
PURPOSE: Financial toxicity is a contributor to the psychosocial burden of cancer care. There is no consensus measure of financial toxicity; however, recent studies have adopted the Comprehensive Score for Financial Toxicity (COST). Despite its growing pop ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Adv · June 2024
BACKGROUND: Cardiogenic shock (CS) in the setting of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Frailty is a common comorbidity in patients with cardiovascular disease and is also associated with adverse outcomes. Th ...
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Journal ArticlePatient · May 2024
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe quality of life for patients with chronic cough (CC) and identify meaningful attributes that affect patient treatment preferences to inform the design of a quantitative preference study. METHODS: Eligible patients ( ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Med · April 3, 2024
(1) Background: Cardiogenic shock (CS) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Frailty and cardiovascular diseases are intertwined, commonly sharing risk factors and exhibiting bidirectional relationships. The relationship of frailty and non-acute ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Rheumatol · March 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explore the factors associated with rheumatology providers' perceptions of telehealth utility in real-world telehealth encounters. METHODS: From September 14, 2020 to January 31, 2021, 6 providers at an academic medical center ...
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Journal ArticlePatient Educ Couns · February 2024
OBJECTIVE: Describe clinicians' perspectives of facilitators and barriers to eliciting physical function goals from patients with multiple chronic conditions pre- and post-surgery. METHODS: Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with clinici ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open Respir Res · January 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: Chronic cough is common, negatively affects quality of life and has limited treatment options. Inhibition of purinergic signalling is a promising therapeutic approach but is associated with taste-related adverse effects. Little is known about t ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · January 2024
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly being used as an assessment and monitoring tool in clinical practice. However, patient adherence to PROMs completions are typically not well documented or explained in published studies ...
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Journal ArticleLupus Sci Med · December 17, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Manifestations of SLE can be categorised as type 1 (classic signs and symptoms of SLE) or type 2 (fatigue, widespread pain and brain fog with an unclear relationship to inflammation). While measures of type 1 SLE activity exist, most current phy ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Med · August 7, 2023
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) impacts of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) have been captured in clinical studies using patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures (PROMs) that are validated for other diseases. However, the validity evidence t ...
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ConferenceApplied Research in Quality of Life · August 1, 2023
Women with heart failure report worse health-related quality of life on average, than men. This may result from actual differences in care or differing interpretations of and responses to survey questions. We investigated potential gender-based differentia ...
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Journal ArticleJMIR Form Res · May 24, 2023
BACKGROUND: Granville and Vance counties have some of the highest opioid-related death rates in North Carolina, and have significant unmet needs with regard to opioid treatment. Medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is the most effective evidence-based ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · March 2023
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate potential gender-based differences in interpreting the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ-23) and to explore if there are aspects of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) not captured by the KC ...
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Journal ArticleJ Card Fail · February 2023
Women diagnosed with heart failure report worse quality of life than men on patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures. An inherent assumption of PRO measures in heart failure is that women and men interpret questions about quality of life the same way. If th ...
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Journal ArticleJ Rheumatol · December 2022
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OBJECTIVE: Medication nonadherence is common in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and negatively affects outcomes. To better recognize and address nonadherence in this population, there is a need for an easily implementable tool with interpr ...
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Journal ArticleLaryngoscope · November 2022
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To evaluate the ability of the Eustachian Tube Dysfunction Questionnaire-7 (ETDQ-7) to discriminate between patients with Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) and Non-ETD diagnoses, and identify symptom information to improve ability to ...
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Journal ArticleACR Open Rheumatol · October 2022
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate a novel scoring system, the Encounter Appropriateness Score for You (EASY), to assess provider perceptions of telehealth appropriateness in rheumatology encounters. METHODS: The EASY scoring system promp ...
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Journal ArticleLupus · May 2022
OBJECTIVE: We developed a model that categorizes systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) activity into two dimensions: Type 1 SLE consists of inflammatory activity, including arthritis, nephritis, and rashes; Type 2 SLE includes fatigue, myalgia, mood disturban ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Oncol · April 27, 2022
Tools for measuring patients' perceived health and quality of life, such as patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), inform clinical decisions for patients requiring radiation therapy. However, there may be inconsistencies in how patients interpret and r ...
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Journal ArticleJMIR Form Res · April 8, 2022
BACKGROUND: The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers (RCI) offers evidence-based interventions to promote caregivers' health and well-being. Trained coaches regularly meet with caregivers to offer education and instructions to improve caregiver health, ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Fam Pract · November 18, 2021
BACKGROUND: As treatments for cancer have improved, more people are surviving cancer. However, compared to people without a history of cancer, cancer survivors are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Increased risk for CVD-related mortality ...
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Journal ArticleCirc Heart Fail · September 2021
BACKGROUND: The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) has been psychometrically evaluated in multiple heart failure (HF) populations, but the comparability of its psychometric properties between men and women is unknown. METHODS: Data from 3 clin ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Qual Life Outcomes · June 13, 2021
OBJECTIVES: There has been limited success in achieving integration of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical trials. We describe how stakeholders envision a solution to this challenge. METHODS: Stakeholders from academia, industry, non-profits, insu ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Arthritis Rheum · June 2021
OBJECTIVE: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of diseases characterized by muscle weakness, which limit activities of daily living. Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) is a set of outcome measures developed u ...
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Journal ArticleQual Life Res · December 2020
PURPOSE: Anchoring vignettes (AVs) are a promising measurement technique to reduce bias in patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures by helping researchers understand differences in how individuals and groups interpret response options. However, little atten ...
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Journal ArticlePhys Ther · January 23, 2020
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Existing osteoarthritis (OA) care models often fall short in addressing the many biological, psychological, social, and behavioral characteristics that contribute to disability. As US health care shifts towards value-based payment, ...
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Journal ArticlePrim Care · December 2019
Primary care clinicians care for an extremely diverse range of patients, and they therefore have numerous opportunities to measure and act to improve the health of various populations. In order to take effective actions to improve the health of their patie ...
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Journal ArticleTransl Behav Med · November 25, 2019
Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are particularly important in mental health services because patients are the central and essential source of information about their mental health status. PRO measures have the potential to engage patients in meanin ...
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Journal ArticleJ Patient Rep Outcomes · May 2, 2019
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to develop and provide a psychometric and feasibility pilot evaluation of the Heart Failure (HF) Symptom Tracker (HFaST), a new patient-reported tool designed to facilitate communication between patients and health care provide ...
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Journal ArticlePatient Relat Outcome Meas · 2019
PURPOSE: To conduct an initial psychometric evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Hypoparathyroidism Symptom Diary (HPT-SD). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Data were collected during a cross-sectional, observational study. Participants with self-reporte ...
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Journal ArticleValue Health · November 2018
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the psychometric properties of Patient's Knee Implant Performance Questionnaire (PKIP), a new patient-reported measure of knee implant functional performance assessing patient experiences before and after primary total knee arthropl ...
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Journal ArticleSupport Care Cancer · August 2018
PURPOSE: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between exercise and sleep disturbance in a sample of individuals diagnosed with stage I, II, and III colorectal cancer (CRC) as patients transitioned off first-line treatment. W ...
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Journal ArticlePsychooncology · March 2018
OBJECTIVE: To identify patient characteristics associated with sleep disturbance and worsening of sleep in individuals diagnosed with localized colorectal cancer and assess heterogeneity in these relationships. METHODS: Data were from the MY-Health study, ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · May 2017
OBJECTIVE: AURELIA, a randomized phase III trial of adding bevacizumab (B) to single agent chemotherapy (CT) for the treatment of platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer, demonstrated improved progression free survival (PFS) in the B+CT arm compared to ...
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Journal ArticleMuscle Nerve · October 2016
INTRODUCTION: To assess self-reported physical functioning in patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM), the sIBM Physical Functioning Assessment (sIFA) was developed. This research establishes the validity, reliability, and responsiveness of t ...
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Journal ArticlePatient Educ Couns · April 2016
UNLABELLED: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) report patients' assessments of the impact of a health condition and its treatment, and can promote patient-centered care. OBJECTIVES: To address the effectiveness of graphic display of PRO data in clinical prac ...
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Journal ArticleHaemophilia · July 2014
Haemophilia A is a rare inherited bleeding disorder characterized by an inability of the blood to clot normally. Patients can experience spontaneous or trauma-induced joint and soft tissue bleeding and must keep coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) accessible a ...
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Journal ArticleNeuropsychiatr Dis Treat · 2014
Inattention and impulsivity symptoms are common among adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which can lead to difficulty concentrating, restlessness, difficulty completing tasks, disorganization, impatience, and impulsiveness. Many a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Sch Nurs · August 2012
This study examined the initiation and logistics, funding, perceived barriers and benefits, and disruption of school activities by school-located influenza vaccination (SLIV) programs conducted during the 2008-2009 influenza season. Seventy-two interviews ...
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Journal ArticleNurs Res · 2012
BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome that affects about 2% of the U.S. general population, with greater prevalence among women (3.5%) than men (0.5%). Previous research results suggest that the experience of pain (allodynia) upon sphygmomano ...
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Journal ArticleValue Health · 2011
OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to provide recommended steps to assess measurement comparability using a crossover study design and to demonstrate these steps using a short patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument as an example. METHODS: The exampl ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis · December 7, 2010
PURPOSE: The lung Function Questionnaire (LFQ) was developed and validated as a case-finding tool to identify patients at risk of airflow obstruction (AO) that should be evaluated further using spirometry. Our objective was to assess the usability and vali ...
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