Health Qual Life Out
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Health Qual Life Out · Jan 2010
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyComparison of numerical and verbal rating scales to measure pain exacerbations in patients with chronic cancer pain.
Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be superior to the other. Aim of the present study is to compare NRS and VRS performance in assessing breakthrough or episodic pain (BP-EP) exacerbations. ⋯ Our results suggest that, in the measurement of cancer pain exacerbations, patients use NRS more appropriately than VRS and as such NRS should be preferred to VRS in this patient's population.
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Health Qual Life Out · Jan 2010
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyHealth-related quality of life before planned admission to intensive care: memory over three and six months.
The validity of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) recalled by ICU admitted patients have not been published. The aim of this study was to compare the baseline HRQOL measured before surgery and ICU admission with that recalled at 3 and 6 months in a population of patients with planned ICU admission after surgery. ⋯ The patients with planned ICU admission have a good memory of their health status as measured by EQ-5D in the period preceding surgery and ICU admission, especially at three months.
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Health Qual Life Out · Jan 2010
Multicenter StudyPsychometric properties of the Brief Pain Inventory among patients with osteoarthritis undergoing total hip replacement surgery.
Pain is a cardinal symptom of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and important for deciding when to operate. This study assessed the internal consistency reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) among patients with OA undergoing total hip replacement (THR). ⋯ The BPI showed acceptable reliability, construct validity and responsiveness in patients with OA undergoing THR. BPI is short and therefore is easy to use and score, though the instrument offers few advantages over and duplicates scales of more comprehensive instruments, such as the WOMAC and SF-36.