Background Patient recall or the application of population norms are commonly used
methods to estimate (unobservable) health status prior to acute-onset illness or injury; …

Background: Owing to the difficulty in prospectively measuring pre-injury health status and
health-related quality of life (HRQL) in an injured cohort, population norms or retrospective …

Background Insight into the change from pre-to post-injury health-related quality of life
(HRQL) of trauma patients is important to derive estimates of the impact of injury on HRQL …

Background Within trauma care measurement of changes in health-related quality of life
(HRQL) is used in understanding patterns of recovery over time. However, conventionally …

Background Retrospective assessment of pre-injury health-related quality of life (HRQL) is
frequently used to measure change from pre-to post-injury HRQL. However, retrospective …

Background It is important to obtain greater insight into health-related quality of life (HRQL)
of injury patients in order to document people's pathways to recovery and to quantify the …

OBJECTIVE: The interpretability of changes in perceived health status over time is
threatened if people experience a response shift. This study assessed whether the recovery …

Background Numerous studies have identified various risk factors for a poor health-related
quality of life (HRQOL) after severe trauma. The relative importance of the time elapsed after …

Background: General information of health-related quality of life pathways to recovery after
injury are largely absent from the literature. This article describes a study which:(1) collated …

Background Studies examining the impact of injury on health-related quality of life (HRQL)
over time are necessary to understand the short-and long-term consequences of injury for …