Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is thought to affect almost 1 billion people worldwide. OSA
has well established cardiovascular and neurocognitive sequelae, although the optimal …

It is true that a primary goal of diabetes early diagnosis and treatment is quality of life (QoL).
The term QoL is still confusing but it is agreed that it composes of four components: The …

Importance The elimination of racial and ethnic differences in health status and health care
access is a US goal, but it is unclear whether the country has made progress over the last 2 …

BACKGROUND Cancer‐related financial burden has been linked to cancer survivors (CS)
forgoing/delaying medical care, skipping follow‐up visits, and discontinuing medications. To …

Regression methods were used to select and score 12 items from the Medical Outcomes
Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) to reproduce the Physical Component …

This paper describes the development and evaluation of a brief, multidimensional, self-
administered, social support survey that was developed for patients in the Medical …

Cross-sectional data from the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) were analyzed to test the
validity of the MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) scales as measures of …

Background. A number of studies have computed the minimally important difference (MID)
for health-related quality of life instruments. Objective. To determine whether there is …

The widespread use of standardized health surveys is predicated on the largely untested
assumption that scales constructed from those surveys will satisfy minimum psychometric …

The SF-36 (Medical Outcomes Trust, Boston, MA) is a multipurpose, short-form health survey
with only 36 questions. It yields an eight-scale profile of scores as well as physical and …