Optimizing use of 5-ASA in the treatment of ulcerative colitis: Focus on patient compliance and adherence [0.03%]
优化氨基水杨酸类药物治疗溃疡性结肠炎的患者用药依从性的措施
Steven J Bernick,Sunanda Kane
Steven J Bernick
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic condition that requires long-term treatment. The first-line therapy remains 5-ASA, which is available in a variety of different formulations and dosing schedules. Multiple studies have demonstrated that adher...
Jin-Shei Lai,Rita Bode,Hwee-Lin Wee et al.
Jin-Shei Lai et al.
We aimed to validate a more rapid, yet reliable means of assessing physical function (PF) for patients with prostate cancer. The sample included 128 prostate cancer patients recruited from urology and general oncology clinics at two Chicago...
Health literacy and health seeking behavior among older men in a middle-income nation [0.03%]
发展中国家中老年男性健康素养与求医行为的关系研究
Paul A Bourne,Chloe Morris,Christopher Ad Charles et al.
Paul A Bourne et al.
Health literacy is a measure of the patient's ability to read, comprehend and act on medical instructions. This research article examines health literacy and health-seeking behaviors among elderly men in Jamaica, in order to inform health p...
Perspectives on electronic medical records adoption: electronic medical records (EMR) in outcomes research [0.03%]
电子健康记录应用展望：电子健康记录在医疗效果研究中的应用
Dan Belletti,Christopher Zacker,C Daniel Mullins
Dan Belletti
Health information technology (HIT) is engineered to promote improved quality and efficiency of care, and reduce medical errors. Healthcare organizations have made significant investments in HIT tools and the electronic medical record (EMR)...
Patient attitudes and preferences regarding literacy screening in ambulatory cancer care clinics [0.03%]
门诊癌症护理诊所患者对读写能力筛查的态度和偏好的研究
Elizabeth A Hahn,Sofia F Garcia,Hongyan Du et al.
Elizabeth A Hahn et al.
Objectives: To evaluate patient attitudes towards literacy screening, agreement between literacy tests, and associations between literacy, informed consent comprehension, and health-related quality of life (HRQL). ...
Developing brief fatigue short forms calibrated to a common mathematical metric: is content-balancing important? [0.03%]
开发一种与数学计算相关的简略疲劳症状短期评估形式：均衡的内容重要吗？
Karon F Cook,Seung W Choi,Kurt L Johnson et al.
Karon F Cook et al.
There are clinical and research settings in which concerns about respondent burden make the use of longer self-report measures impractical. Though computer adaptive testing provides an efficient strategy for measuring patient reported outco...
Quality of life information and trust in physicians among families of children with life-limiting conditions [0.03%]
生命终期儿童家庭的生活质量信息与其对医生信任度之间的关系研究
I-Chan Huang,Kelly M Kenzik,Tuli Y Sanjeev et al.
I-Chan Huang et al.
PURPOSE: To examine information that parents of children with life-limiting conditions want to discuss with children's physicians to assist decision-making, and whether the desire for this information is associated with parents' trust in ph...
Is less more? A preliminary investigation of the number of response categories in self-reported pain [0.03%]
少即是多吗？自我报告疼痛的反应类别数量的初步调查研究
Karon F Cook,David Cella,Erin L Boespflug et al.
Karon F Cook et al.
The purpose of this study was to conduct a preliminary investigation of the number of response options for self-reports of pain interference. Responses to interference items of the 11-category Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) were obtained in a s...
Patients' and caregivers' experiences of the impact of Parkinson's disease on health status [0.03%]
帕金森病对健康状况的影响：患者及照护者的经历
Horacio Chiong-Rivero,Gery W Ryan,Charles Flippen et al.
Horacio Chiong-Rivero et al.
BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that significantly affects patients' quality of life. The myriad complexities of the disease, including its nonmotor manifestations, are beginning to be more fully apprecia...
Gout disease-specific quality of life and the association with gout characteristics [0.03%]
痛风的疾病特异性生活质量及其与痛风特征的关系
Jan D Hirsch,Robert Terkeltaub,Dinesh Khanna et al.
Jan D Hirsch et al.
PURPOSE: Assess the association of gout characteristics with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) using a new gout-specific HRQoL instrument, the Gout Impact Scale (GIS). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Gout patients completed the GIS (five scales ...