Background: The comparative effectiveness of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery
and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for patients in whom both procedures are …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted as the document was compiled through …

In today's medical ecosystem, it is vital to measure the outcomes that are most important to
the patients. As such, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS) can be an essential …

Background—Clinical trials and national performance measures increasingly mandate
reporting patients' perspectives of their health status: their symptoms, function, and quality of …

Background: Although long-term follow-up studies have shown favorable results, in terms of
foot function, after treatment of idiopathic clubfoot with serial manipulations and casts, we …

Background: Investigators seeking to understand the impact of musculoskeletal disorders
commonly use validated outcome instruments to assess the effect of diseases on physical …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess whether depressive symptoms are
independently associated with changes in heart failure (HF)-specific health status …

Aims Negative emotions have an adverse effect on cardiac prognosis. We investigated
whether social inhibition (inhibited self-expression in social interaction) modulates the effect …

Background Depression has been shown to be an independent risk factor for short-term
mortality in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). There are studies suggesting that …

Objective: Evaluating the effect of anxiety and depression on clinical measures of general
health, tinnitus-specific quality of life, and coping abilities. Design: Two hundred sixty-five …