Patients with breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy frequently suffer from a restricted quality of life (QoL) due to the side-effects of chemotherapy and the consequences of coping with the diagnosis. Therefore, the objective of this clinical study was to investigate the impact of PS76A2, an aqueous mistletoe extract standardised to the galactoside-specific mistletoe lectin, on QoL by p...

Background: Despite the increasing older population providing care for family members with dementia at home, there is no consensus in the literature in terms of how caring impacts on their quality of life (QoL) and the association of the family carer’s age with QoL outcomes. Aims: To explore the available literature investigating the QoL of older family carers (family carers aged ≥ 60) and the ...

Purpose: To determine if there were differences in quality of life (QOL) within the first year following EVAR for patients undergoing internal iliac embolization depending on the type of device used. Methods: Patients who underwent endovascular AAA repair were identified using a Vascular surgery database at a tertiary care center from 2002-2008. The Radiology Information System and Image Viewer...

[Purpose] We report the impact of physical therapy on Activities Daily Living (ADL) and Quality Life (QOL) a terminal cancer patient with severe hemiplegia due to brain hemorrhage being treated in fully independent palliative care hospital. [Participant Methods] A man his 60s presenting was diagnosed lung adenocarcinoma, metastasis, multiple metastases following cerebral hemorrhage. The subject...

The evaluation of various characteristics of a disease and the effect of its treatment based only on a clinical picture and objective study methods is today considered to be an incomplete process [1-3]. In this context, it is recommended that a quality of life (QoL) evaluation be used as an additional tool for effective patient management [5-7]. In medicine, QoL reflects the level of a patient'...

Background Longitudinal data on the impact of treatment on quality of life (QoL) in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are limited. In this palliative setting, treatment that does not deteriorate QoL is key. Here we report longitudinal QoL in patients with squamous NSCLC, receiving ≤4 cycles of nab-paclitaxel/carboplatin combination chemotherapy. Methods Patients received nab-paclita...

Malnutrition is a significant factor in predicting cancer patients' quality of life (QoL). We systematically reviewed the literature on the role of nutritional status in predicting QoL in cancer. We searched MEDLINE database using the terms "nutritional status" in combination with "quality of life" together with "cancer". Human studies published in English, having nutritional status as one of t...

Background. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life (QOL) of healthy physicians and their patients in the context of an orthopedic department. Material and methods. Two groups of men participated in anonymous surveys. The first group included orthopaedic surgeons (n = 50) ranging in age from 26 to 55 years (mean 38.6 +/- 8); the second group consisted of patients (n = 53) rangin...

BACKGROUND One of the elements of the broadening focus of health care beyond its traditional and restricted concept has been the increasing adoption quality of life approach to health care research and practice. OBJECTIVES To investigate the QOL of women in the third trimester of pregnancy and at 8 weeks postpartum and factors associated with the overall QOL. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hun...

OBJECTIVE Identifying the factors correlated with health-related quality of life (QOL) amongst low-income diabetic patients attending two public hospitals in Bogotá. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study involving 153 type 2 diabetic patients. The variables studied were socio-demographic characteristics, social support, lifestyle and clinical measurements (HbA1c, BMI, and cholesterol). The...