Factors of importance when evaluating quality of life in clinical trials

The Sickness Impact Profile: Development and Final Revision of a Health Status Measure

1981 • 4,685 citations

Beta blockade during and after myocardial infarction: An overview of the randomized trials

1985 • 3,248 citations

Self-rated health: a predictor of mortality among the elderly.

1982 • 2,153 citations

Generic and Disease-Specific Measures in Assessing Health Status and Quality of Life

1989 • 1,740 citations

Measuring the quality of life of cancer patients

1981 • 1,562 citations

A methodological framework for assessing health indices

1985 • 1,550 citations

The Effects of Antihypertensive Therapy on the Quality of Life

1986 • 1,344 citations

Measuring health status in arthritis

1980 • 1,193 citations

On the receiving end—patient perception of the side-effects of cancer chemotherapy

1983 • 988 citations

Assessment of quality of life in clinical trials of cardiovascular therapies

1984 • 986 citations

Comparative reproducibility and validity of systems for assessing cardiovascular functional class: advantages of a new specific activity scale.

1981 • 973 citations

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

1988 • 931 citations

Assessing the responsiveness of functional scales to clinical change: An analogy to diagnostic test performance

1986 • 786 citations

Measuring disease-specific quality of life in clinical trials.

1986 • 722 citations

The Psychological General Well-Being (PGWB) index

1984 • 694 citations

DIETARY FAT AND DIETARY SUGAR IN RELATION TO ISCHÆMIC HEART-DISEASE AND DIABETES

1964 • 674 citations

The Reliability of Clinical Methods, Data and Judgments

1975 • 654 citations

Health and Social Factors Related to Life Satisfaction

1972 • 572 citations

Adverse reactions to bendrofluazide and propranolol for the treatment of mild hypertension. Report of Medical Research Council Working Party on Mild to Moderate Hypertension.

1981 • 530 citations

Life Quality of Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

1982 • 490 citations

Measurement of quality of life: current state of the art.

1982 • 440 citations

Measuring quality of life in clinical trials: a taxonomy and review.

1989 • 406 citations

The Reliability of Clinical Methods, Data and Judgments

1975 • 406 citations

Assessment of Quality of Life in Clinical Trials of Cardiovascular Therapies

1985 • 390 citations

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

1987 • 337 citations

Adverse Nondrug Reactions

1968 • 243 citations

The effect of hypotensive drugs on the quality of life.

1982 • 230 citations

Symptoms and Experiences in Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema

1983 • 218 citations

Reliability of a population survey tool for measuring perceived health problems: a study of patients with osteoarthrosis.

1981 • 218 citations

The McMaster Health Index Questionnaire as a measure of quality of life for patients with rheumatoid disease.

1982 • 214 citations

Quality of life in patients with chronic airflow limitation

1987 • 212 citations

Self-assessed disability in patients with arthrosis of the hip joint: Reliability of the Swedish version of the Nottingham Health Profile

1988 • 170 citations

Mortality and mental health: Evidence from the Midtown Manhattan restudy

1976 • 147 citations

Self‐assessment of quality of life in severe heart failure: An instrument for clinical use

1987 • 117 citations

Comparison of the Antihypertensive Efficacy and Adverse Reactions to Two Doses of Bendrofluazide and Hydrochlorothiazide and the Effect of Potassium Supplementation on the Hypotensive Action of Bendrofluazide: Substudies of the Medical Research Council's Trials of Treatment of Mild Hypertension: Medical Research Council Working Party

1987 • 113 citations

Vocational adjustment after first myocardial infarction; Comparative assessment of several variables suggested in the literature

1973 • 102 citations

A symptom questionnaire for hypertensive patients

1974 • 101 citations

QUALITY OF LIFE ON ANGINA THERAPY: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF TRANSDERMAL GLYCERYL TRINITRATE AGAINST PLACEBO

1988 • 94 citations

Psychosocial outcome one year after a first myocardial infarction

1984 • 91 citations

Reduction of Symptoms by Pharmacologically Inert Substances and by Short-Term Psychotherapy

1958 • 90 citations

Antihypertensive Treatment With Metoprolol or Hydrochlorothiazide in Patients Aged 60 to 75 Years

1986 • 87 citations

Differences in the subjective well-being and symptoms of normotensives, borderline hypertensives and hypertensives

1989 • 77 citations

Hypertension: psychological aspects and diagnostic impact in a clinical trial

1984 • 61 citations

Visual hallucinations and illusions with propranolol.

1978 • 57 citations

The status of patient status measures.

1987 • 56 citations

Quality of Life —a Review of the Literature

1987 • 53 citations

Measurement of Side Effects of Drugs

1974 • 53 citations

The patient with angina; symptoms and disability

1973 • 49 citations

A Survey of Adjustment to Cardiac Surgery

1972 • 42 citations

Prevalence of Angina Pectoris and Myocardial Infarction in a General Population Sample of Swedish Men

1977 • 42 citations

Documentation of an instrument for assessment of subjective CNS-related symptoms during cardiovascular pharmacotherapy

1989 • 40 citations

Adverse Non-drug Reactions

1969 • 40 citations

Methodologic problems in clinical trials in heart failure

1985 • 39 citations

Anti-anginal therapy and quality of life A comparison of the effects of transdermal nitroglycerin and long-acting oral nitrates

1991 • 36 citations

Biobehavioral sequellae associated with adrenergic-inhibiting antihypertensive agents: A critical review.

1985 • 35 citations

Psychological features of patients with hypertension attending hospital follow-up clinics

1976 • 34 citations

Biobehavioral sequellae associated with adrenergic-inhibiting antihypertensive agents: A critical review.

1985 • 32 citations

Antihypertensive drugs and depression: a reappraisal

1978 • 31 citations

Psychiatric Complications of Antihypertensive Medications

1981 • 30 citations

Quality of Life in Hypertensive Patients on Different Antihypertensive Treatments

1985 • 28 citations

CNS‐related subjective symptoms during treatment with beta 1‐ adrenoceptor antagonists (atenolol, metoprolol): two double‐blind placebo controlled studies.

1989 • 23 citations

Drug therapy and quality of life in angina pectoris

1987 • 23 citations

Comparison of personal interview and postal inquiry methods for assessing prevalence of angina and possible infarction

1972 • 21 citations

The treatment of hypertension and quality of life.

1985 • 18 citations

Quality of Life in Postmyocardial Infarction Patients in relation to Drug Therapy

1989 • 15 citations

Measurement of the quality of life in angina.

1987 • 14 citations

A Monitoring System for Adverse Drug Experiences in a Pharmaceutical Company: The Integration of Pre- and Postmarketing Data

1986 • 14 citations

Problems associated with clinical evaluation of antianginal medications

1985 • 14 citations

Long-Term Follow-Up After Open-Heart Valve Surgery

1984 • 2 citations