Objective: To assess the impact of comorbid heart disease, stroke and arthritis on health-
related quality of life (HRQL) in people with diabetes in the general Canadian population …

Background—To perform decision analyses that include stroke as one of the possible health
states, the utilities of stroke states must be determined. We reviewed the literature to obtain …

Background Prurigo nodularis (PN) is an understudied, pruritic inflammatory skin disease.
Little is known about the effect of PN on quality of life and its associated economic burden …

This review investigates the health of immigrants to Canada by critically examining
differences in health status between immigrants and the native-born population and by …

Two main challenges exist that prevent the meaningful comparison of household interview
data across populations. The first concerns limitations in the cross-population comparability …

Outcome measures may be seen as windows, each of which provides a different perspective
on a single view, the impact of a disease or disorder on the patient concerned. A comparison …

The objective of this study was to assess the independent effect of income on health-related
quality of life (HRQL) among older adults in Canada and the United States. Data were …

Purpose Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients may suffer from poor sleep
and health-related quality of life. We hypothesized that disturbed sleep in COPD is …

Clinicians can often find treatment recommendations in traditional narrative reviews and the
discussion sections of original articles and meta-analyses. Making a treatment …

Background and Purpose—We performed a comprehensive review of all quality-of-life
(QOL) estimates for stroke appearing in the peer-reviewed literature between 1985 and …