Assessment and management of pain in haemophilia patients

RR Riley, M Witkop, E Hellman, S Akins - Haemophilia, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Haemophilia patients experience acute pain during joint bleeds and chronic pain from
haemophilic arthropathy. More than 50% of haemophilia patients have painful joints that …

Quality of life and sports activities in patients with haemophilia

S Von Mackensen - Haemophilia, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Quality of life (QoL) is a multidimensional construct pertaining to an individual's physical,
emotional, mental, social and behavioural components of well‐being and functioning. QoL …

Cost of care and quality of life for patients with hemophilia complicated by inhibitors: the COCIS Study Group

A Gringeri, LG Mantovani, L Scalone, PM Mannucci… - Blood, 2003 - ashpublications.org
Inhibitors in patients with hemophilia are a rare complication of a rare disease causing pain
and disability in patients and impairment to the quality of their lives. Recent advances in …

Development and testing of an instrument to assess the Quality of Life of Children with Haemophilia in Europe (Haemo‐QoL)

S Von Mackensen, M Bullinger… - Haemophilia, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of an increased interest in the assessment of quality of life (QoL) in children, so far
no instrument for children with haemophilia is available. Because of the low prevalence of …

Quality of life is associated to the orthopaedic status in haemophilic patients with inhibitors

L Scalone, LG Mantovani, PM Mannucci… - …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Inhibitors represent one major complication of haemophilia treatment, as they increase the
risk of bleeding, physical disability and mortality. The Cost Of Care Inhibitors Study (COCIS) …

[HTML][HTML] Health‐related quality of life among adult patients with moderate and severe von Willebrand disease

EM de Wee, EP MAUSER‐BUNSCHOTEN… - Journal of Thrombosis …, 2010 - Elsevier
Summary Background: von Willebrand Disease (VWD) is the most frequent inherited
bleeding disorder. It is unknown how this disorder affects quality of life. Objectives: This …

Health status and health‐related quality of life of children with haemophilia from six West European countries

AV Gringeri, S Von Mackensen, G Auerswald… - …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
A multicentre, international, cross‐sectional study was carried out in the frame of field testing
of the first haemophilia‐specific quality‐of‐life (QoL) questionnaire (Haemo‐QoL). The aim …

[HTML][HTML] Health-related quality of life in hemophilia: results of the Hemophilia-Specific Quality of Life Index (Haem-a-Qol) at a Brazilian blood center

AA Ferreira, ICG Leite… - Revista brasileira de …, 2013 - SciELO Brasil
BACKGROUND Studies on health-related quality of life are based on the increasingly
evident need for medical care not to be limited to preventing death, but to focus instead on …

Quality of life in haemophilia A: hemophilia utilization Group Study Va (HUGS‐Va)

JL Poon, ZY Zhou, JN Doctor, J Wu, MM Ullman… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This study describes health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) of persons with haemophilia A in
the United States (US) and determines associations between self‐reported joint pain, motion …

Development of a health‐related quality of life measure for boys with haemophilia: the Canadian Haemophilia Outcomes–Kids Life Assessment Tool (CHO‐KLAT)

NL Young, CS Bradley, V Blanchette… - …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Several measures of quality of life (QoL) are available for children with haemophilia.
However, most are not disease‐specific and few focus on children's perspectives. The …