Abstract Background Short-Form 36 (SF-36) is a self-report health-related quality-of-life
(HRQOL) questionnaire, widely used in dialysis patients. It consists of physical and mental …

Background To assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) with SF-12 and SF-36 and
compare their abilities to predict mortality in chronic dialysis patients, after adjusting for …

BACKGROUND:: One of the guidelines released by the National Kidney Foundation Kidney
Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) recommends that patients with glomerular …

Short Form 36 (SF-36) is a well-documented health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL)
instrument consisting of 36 questions compressed into eight scales and two primary …

Purpose The SF-36, a generic measure of 8 domains of health-related quality of life
(HRQOL), has been widely used to examine HRQOL of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) …

Purpose Chronic kidney disease (CKD) negatively affects health-related quality of life
(HRQoL), which is often measured using the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36 (SF …

BACKGROUND: Interest in measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has increased
together with an awareness that such humanistic outcomes require valid and reliable …

Abstract Background and objectives: The Short Form 12 (SF-12) has not been validated for
long-term dialysis patients. The study compared physical and mental component summary …

This paper provides a review of four studies, which use the generic Medical Outcome Study
Questionnaire 36‐Item Short Form Survey (SF‐36) to investigate the quality of life of patients …

Background We compared three ways of assessing health status in chronic hemodialysis
patients: generic questionnaire compared with population norms, disease-specific …