Outcomes pertaining to orthodontics can be either ‘disease’ outcome or ‘treatment’ outcome. The scales used for assessment are usually the same both and classified as generic condition-specific. Generic in general a variety of clinical conditions dentistry, whereas condition-specific specific problems like malocclusion. Due peculiar nature orthodontic that do not fall into definition disease, l...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the equivalence between electronic and paper administration of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in studies conducted subsequent to those included in Gwaltney et al's 2008 review. METHODS A systematic literature review of PROM equivalence studies conducted between 2007 and 2013 identified 1,997 records from which 72 studies...

The ability to effectively measure health-related quality-of-life longitudinally is central to describing the impacts of disease, treatment, or other insults, including normal aging, upon the patient. Over the last two decades, assessment of patient health status has undergone a dramatic paradigm shift, evolving from a predominant reliance on biochemical and physical measurements, such as eryth...

UNLABELLED PATIENT SCENARIO: The patient presented is a high school baseball pitcher who was unable to throw because of shoulder pain. He subsequently failed nonoperative management but was able to return to pitching after surgery and successful rehabilitation. CLINICAL OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT: The Disabilities of Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) and the Pennsylvania Shoulder Score (PENN) were selecte...

INTRODUCTION Total hip replacement is generally proposed for renal transplant patients with avascular osteonecrosis of the femoral head. PURPOSE The purpose of the study is to report the long-term outcome after rehabilitation of bilateral total hip arthroplasty in a patient with renal transplantation suffering from avascular osteonecrosis of the both femoral heads. MATERIAL AND METHOD The p...

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an established and successful procedure. However, the design of prostheses continues to be modified in an attempt to optimise the functional outcome of the patient. The aim of this study was to determine if patient outcome after TKA was influenced by the design of the prosthesis used. A total of 212 patients (mean age 69; 43 to 92; 131 female (62%), 81 male (32%...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled trial. OBJECTIVE To analyze factors that may influence the outcome of anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) followed by physiotherapy versus physiotherapy alone for treatment of patients with cervical radiculopathy. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA An understanding of patient-related factors affecting the outcome of ACDF is important for ...

OBJECTIVES To identify interventions and outcome measures that should be included when designing care management programs for older patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and assessing the overall effectiveness of these programs. STUDY DESIGN Structured literature review and assessment. METHODS A systematic literature search was conducted to identify articles that described interventi...

Abstract Comprehensive genomic profiling and biomarker-based therapeutic strategies are currently used in clinical trials innovative health care systems including the center for personalized medicine network. Systematic assessments of patient-reported outcomes warranted to gain insight into perspective patients their relatives during therapies. In present study, we focused on health-related qua...