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Strategies for incorporating patientreported outcomes in the care of people with chronic kidney disease (PRO kidney): a protocol for a realist synthesis
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Schick-Marakoff, Kara, Thummapol, Onouma, Thompson, Stephanie, Flynn, Rachel, Karimi-Dehkordi, Mehri, Klarenbach, Scott, Sawatzky, Richard, Greenhalgh, Joanne
Background: Patient-reported outcomes and experience measures (jointly referred to here as PROs) are internationally recognized as a means for patients to provide information about their quality of life, symptoms, and experiences with care. Although increasingly recognized as key to improving the...
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2005
Power, M., Schmidt, S., Quinn, K.
This paper describes the development of an add-on module for the WHOQOL measures of quality of life (QoL) for use with older adults. The add-on module, known as the WHOQOL-OLD, was derived following standard WHOQOL methodology. In the pilot phase of the study, 22 centres from around the world...
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2008
Low, G., Molzahn, A. E., Kalfoss, M.
The aim of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of the WHOQOL–BREF, a generic quality of life scale, among older people in Canada and Norway. Very similar data from the Canadian and Norwegian Field Trial data (Canada n = 192; Norway, n = 469) were analyzed and compared. Higher...