Quality-of-life measurement in surgical practice

ASSESSMENT OF COMA AND IMPAIRED CONSCIOUSNESS

1974 • 12,376 citations

Progress in Development of the Index of ADL

1970 • 3,884 citations

A Proposal for a New Method of Evaluation of the Newborn Infant.

1953 • 1,769 citations

The definition of quality and approaches to its assessment

1980 • 1,746 citations

Measuring the quality of life of cancer patients

1981 • 1,562 citations

Evaluation of Chemotherapeutic Agents.

1950 • 1,166 citations

A New Measure of Health Status for Clinical Trials in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

1989 • 1,087 citations

Utility approach to measuring health-related quality of life

1987 • 1,055 citations

Who should measure quality of life, the doctor or the patient?

1988 • 931 citations

Measuring health status: a new tool for clinicians and epidemiologists.

1985 • 859 citations

Measuring disease-specific quality of life in clinical trials.

1986 • 722 citations

Standards for validating health measures: Definition and content

1987 • 640 citations

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

1976 • 555 citations

Psychiatric problems in the first year after mastectomy.

1978 • 537 citations

Effect of the number of scale points on reliability: A Monte Carlo approach.

1975 • 482 citations

Clinimetrics

1987 • 469 citations

Symptom Status and Quality of Life Following Prostatectomy

1988 • 442 citations

Psychological and social adjustment to mastectomy.A two-year follow-up study

1977 • 439 citations

Clinical biostatistics

1977 • 430 citations

EVALUATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR ADVANCED BREAST CANCER

1976 • 406 citations

Health-related quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease

1989 • 405 citations

Quality-of-Life Assessment: Can We Keep It Simple?

1992 • 360 citations

Effects of breast conservation on psychological morbidity associated with diagnosis and treatment of early breast cancer.

1986 • 341 citations

Quality of life assessment of patients in extremity sarcoma clinical trials.

1982 • 338 citations

State of science 1986: Quality of life and functional status as target variables for research

1987 • 337 citations

The quality of life: the missing measurement in health care

1991 • 318 citations

Using Proxies to Evaluate Quality of Life

1989 • 313 citations

A study of the failures after gastrectomy.

1948 • 256 citations

Sex or survival: trade-offs between quality and quantity of life.

1991 • 232 citations

Five to eight-year results of Leeds-York controlled trial of elective surgery for duodenal ulcer.

1968 • 217 citations

Reporting standards and research strategies for controlled trials

1980 • 205 citations

Conventional Versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy and the randomized controlled trial

1991 • 189 citations

Measuring and analysing quality of life in cancer clinical trials: A review

1983 • 179 citations

Ten-year follow-up of quality of life in patients randomized to receive medical therapy or coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS)

1990 • 178 citations

Prospective study of quality of life before and after coronary artery bypass grafting.

1991 • 168 citations

Hormone replacement therapy and survival after surgery for ovarian cancer.

1991 • 148 citations

Medicine and the Quality of Life

1966 • 148 citations

Pouch versus esophagojejunostomy after total gastrectomy: A randomized clinical trial

1987 • 137 citations

Assessing the quality of life—a study in newly-diagnosed breast cancer patients

1990 • 118 citations

Clinimetric perspectives

1987 • 114 citations

Quality of life: An important endpoint both in surgical practice and research

1987 • 113 citations

Health Status Index Models: A Unified Mathematical View

1976 • 111 citations

A prospective evaluation of the psychosocial effects of coronary artery bypass surgery

1989 • 111 citations

Long-term Survival and Quality of Life Following Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

1988 • 106 citations

Quality of Life Before and After Orthotopic Hepatic Transplantation

1991 • 105 citations

Comparative reliability of categorical and analogue rating scales in the assessment of psychiatric symptomatology

1979 • 96 citations

Quality of Life after Coronary Artery Surgery

1987 • 96 citations

Quality of life and functional results following different types of resection for gastric carcinoma.

1990 • 79 citations

Psychosocial Adjustment and Quality of Life following Heart Transplantation

1990 • 78 citations

High Technology Medicine, Benefits and Burdens

1986 • 78 citations

The measurement of health-related quality of life: Major dimensions identified by factor analysis

1990 • 66 citations

Quality of survival of patients with brain gliomas treated with postoperative CCNU and radiation therapy

1989 • 65 citations

Quantitative issues in health-related quality of life assessment

1988 • 63 citations

Psychosocial responses to oral and maxillofacial surgery for head and neck cancer

1989 • 62 citations

Psychological impact of adjuvant chemotherapy in the first two years after mastectomy.

1986 • 61 citations

Quality of life variables in surgical trials

1987 • 61 citations

Quality of life of cancer patients at different stages in the disease trajectory

1987 • 60 citations

Assessing quality of life in patients treated for advanced head and neck cancer

1991 • 59 citations

A Psychological Support Concept and Quality of Life Research in a Liver Transplantation Program: An Interdisciplinary Multicenter Study

1990 • 59 citations

Prosthetic mesh plug repair of femoral and recurrent inguinal hernias: the American experience.

1992 • 55 citations

Quality of life after bypass surgery for unstable angina. 5-year follow-up results of a Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study.

1991 • 53 citations

Operation Rates, Mortality Statistics and the Quality of Life

1973 • 51 citations

A daily diary for quality of life measurement in advanced breast cancer trials

1993 • 45 citations

Pediatric heart transplantation: quality of life.

1987 • 45 citations

Psychosocial effects of radiotherapy after mastectomy.

1987 • 44 citations

Quality of Life and Technology Assessment

1989 • 39 citations

Outcome from Carotid Endarterectomy. Neuropsychological Performances, Depressive Symptoms and Quality of Life: 8-Month Follow-up

1988 • 36 citations

Life: quality, value and justice

1988 • 32 citations

Quality of Life After Coronary Artery Surgery

1988 • 31 citations

Quality of Life in Hypertensive Patients on Different Antihypertensive Treatments

1985 • 28 citations

Patients' Quality of Life Following Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Lithotripsy and Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy for Renal Calculi

1990 • 26 citations

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: the first 155 patients.

1992 • 26 citations

Recovery after subarachnoid haemorrhage.

1989 • 25 citations

Treatment Outcomes and Quality of Life

1989 • 22 citations

Mortality and Quality of Life After Total Abdominal Colectomy

1990 • 20 citations

Quality of postoperative life in gastric cancer patients seventy years of age and over.

1988 • 17 citations

Judging the quality of life after surgical operations

1987 • 16 citations

Laparoscopic laser cholecystectomy: our first 200 patients.

1992 • 16 citations

Chronic Effects of Serotonin Inhibition in Hypertensive Patients

1985 • 14 citations

Caring or Curing: Conflicts of Choice

1985 • 14 citations

Improved Quality of Life after Distal Splenorenal Shunt

1988 • 13 citations

»Lebensqualität« nach Ösophagektomie: Ergebnisse einer psychosozialen Untersuchung an 80 Karzinompatienten

2008 • 12 citations

Role of quality of life in therapeutic strategies in brain tumors

1988 • 11 citations

Laparoscopic laser cholecystectomy: results of the technique in 210 patients.

1992 • 11 citations

QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER RESORATIVE PROCTOCOLECTOMY

1990 • 11 citations

Health status and utility measurement viewed from the right brain: Experience from the rheumatic diseases

1987 • 10 citations

Avoiding Inappropriate Surgery: Discussion Paper

1990 • 10 citations

Audit and the quality of clinical care: patient satisfaction.

1991 • 9 citations

[Evaluation of the quality of life in adulthood of 158 patients surgically-treated for tetralogy of Fallot].

1991 • 7 citations

Prognose und Lebensqualität nach Pinealis-Logen-Tumoren im Kindesalter

1987 • 7 citations

[Quality of life of patients after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer].

1991 • 7 citations

Psychological screening for non-specific abdominal pain

1992 • 6 citations

Can knee replacements be assessed by post?

1991 • 5 citations

Quality of life and gynecological cancers.

1990 • 4 citations

Quality of life in patients with an ileostomy

1988 • 4 citations

PALLIATION OF MALIGNANT JAUNDICE

1991 • 3 citations

[Postoperative long-term quality of life at present after total correction of tetralogy of Fallot].

1990 • 3 citations

Surgical workload: variation in throughput.

1991 • 3 citations

Quality of Life Following Cerebral Bypass Surgery

1988 • 2 citations

[Quality of life and mortality following major neurosurgical interventions in advanced age].

1988 • 2 citations

Potential usefulness of a physical activity index in the assessment of quality of life of patients after gastrointestinal surgery.

1989 • 2 citations

[Long-term (10 to 23 years) clinical evaluation of quality of life in patients following open heart repair of tetralogy of Fallot].

1990 • 2 citations

[The quality of life of patients with cardiac arrhythmia undergoing surgical treatment].

1989 • 1 citations

[Rectal cancer therapy compatible with preservation of function].

1988 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations