We describe the functioning and well-being of patients with depression, relative to patients
with chronic medical conditions or no chronic conditions. Data are from 11 242 outpatients in …

Recently, Ware and Sherbourne 1 published a new short‐form health survey, the MOS 36‐Item
Short‐Form Health Survey (SF‐36), consisting of 36 items included in long‐form …

There is a great demand for measures of physical and mental health, social and role functioning,
and other general health con-cepts for use in evaluating health care. 1-3 To be useful, …

Enhancing daily functioning and well-being is an increasingly advocated goal in the treatment
of patients with chronic conditions. We evaluated the functioning and well-being of 9385 …

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to summarize recommendations on methods for
evaluating responsiveness and minimal important difference (MID) for patient-reported …

Objective To develop and test the psychometric properties of a 25-list-item version of the
National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25). Design Prospective …

Background: The construction and evaluation of item banks to measure unidimensional
constructs of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a fundamental objective of the Patient-…

Background The use of global health items permits an efficient way of gathering general
perceptions of health. These items provide useful summary information about health and are …

This paper describes the Kidney Disease Quality of Life (KDQOL TM ) Instrument (dialysis
version), a self-report measure that includes a 36-item health survey as the generic core, …

The RAND-36 is perhaps the most widely used health-related quality of life (HRQoL) survey
instrument in the world today. It is comprised of 36 items that assess eight health concepts: …