Purpose: This study evaluated the validity of 8-item Health-Related Quality Life (HINT-8) instrument for older adults in Korea. Methods: used data from 2019 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Health-related quality life distribution ceiling effect were investigated using HINT-8 EuroQol-five-dimensions three-level version (EQ-5D-3L) 1,519 people aged 65 or To examine known-...

BACKGROUND In economic evaluations of care services for older adults health-related quality of life (QoL) measures such as the EQ-5D are increasingly replaced by the ICECAP-O and ASCOT, which cover a broader scope of QoL than health alone. Little is known about the content validity and feasibility of these measures. The purpose of this study was to explore the content validity and feasibility o...

BACKGROUND Foreign utilities of the EQ-5D-3L (3-level version of the EuroQol-5 Dimension of health questionnaire) are not readily transferrable to economic evaluations conducted from a national perspective. It has been advised to avoid transferring mean utilities from one country to another without adjusting them; yet no such method exists. PURPOSE The present study aimed to develop a method ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to identify the physical fitness (PF) tests of a multi-component battery more related to the perception of problems in each dimension of the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assessed by the EuroQol 5 dimensions 3 level questionnaire (EQ-5D-3L) in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted with...

Las enfermedades bucales están asociadas con factores de riesgo que son comunes a no transmisibles. La salud bucal tiene implicaciones sistémicas potencialmente multiorgánicas, van desde una resistencia la insulina producida por presencia enfermedad periodontal hasta complicaciones multiorgánicas más complejas involucran al sistema cardiovascular o incluso patología neurodegenerativa. El objeti...

Abstract Background The EuroQol EQ-5D is one of the most widely researched and applied patient-reported outcome measures worldwide. original EQ-5D-3L more recent EQ-5D-5L include three five response categories respectively. Evidence from healthy sick populations shows that additional two improve measurement properties but there has not been a concurrent comparison versions in patients with low ...

BACKGROUND Expectations held by health professionals and their patients are likely to affect treatment choices in subacute inpatient rehabilitation settings for older adults. There is a scarcity of empirical evidence evaluating whether health professionals expectations of the quality of their patients' future health states are accurate. METHODS A prospective longitudinal cohort investigation ...