Users' guides to the medical literature. XII. How to use articles about health-related quality of life. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

Tradução, adaptação cultural e validação do "American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) Ankle-Hindfoot Scale"

“…The great challenge for researchers lies in how to quantify subjective data and which questions should be addressed by the different instruments assessing health-related quality of life. These instruments are usually found in English; therefore, they must be translated and their measurement properties must then be assessed in a specific cultural context (3,9) . In our study, we faced no problems in understanding the questions, because these reflect simple and daily life-related conditions of patients.…”

Predicting the long-term impact of acquired severe injuries on functional health status: the role of optimism, emotional distress and pain

“…1 It consists of 136 statements about functional status in 12 categories. Two dimension scores and the overall SIP score were calculated, with higher scores indicating more dysfunction.…”

“…1 In practice, this amounts to improving the patients' function in daily activities and generally to making them feel better. Measurements of how people are feeling and adapting in this context might be referred to as health-related quality of life or functional health status, depending on the type of measures used.…”

SOR: project methodology

“…Explicit criteria are used for the assessment of the validity of trial results and the quality of the methodology according to the type of publication (Guyatt et al, 1993(Guyatt et al, , 1997Oxman et al, 1993Oxman et al, , 1994Jaeschke et al, 1994aJaeschke et al, , 1994bLaupacis et al, 1994;Levine et al, 1994;Hayward et al, 1995). To improve methodological rigor, to limit bias in the selection of relevant studies and to facilitate the data review process, critical appraisal checklists have been developed for different types of publications (Fervers, 2000).…”