Objectives. We examined income-related inequalities in self-reported health in the United
States and Canada and the extent to which they are associated with individual-level risk …

Objective The prevalence of obesity and associated cardiometabolic risk factors such as
diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertension is increasing significantly for all demographic …

INTRODUCTION: Assessing the neurological and disability status of cardiac arrest (CA)
survivors is important for evaluating the outcomes of resuscitation interventions. The …

Aim The objective of this overview is to review current methodologies of response shift
research in patient-reported outcomes to facilitate and stimulate further research in this area …

Objective: To compare five preference-based generic measures of health-related quality of
life (HRQOL) in terms of change scores, correlations among change scores …

Objective. We assessed which of a broad range of determinants of health are most strongly
associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL) among people with type 2 diabetes …

The burden of disease associated with being African-American in the US, and the
contribution of socio-economic status (SES) to that burden have not been quantified. We …

Chronic pruritus (CP) has considerable implications for QOL. However, its impact on health-
related QOL and economic burden is not fully characterized. We administered a cross …

Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is now widely recognized as one of the major health
outcome indices in clinical studies, health services research, and health policy formation …

Objectives. The relative performance of three widely used generic health status measures
(EQ-5D, a modified HUI3 [mHUI3], and SF-12) was compared within a general population …