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| Nan LuoSummaryAffiliation: National University of Singapore Country: Singapore Publications
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Relative efficiency of the EQ-5D, HUI2, and HUI3 index scores in measuring health burden of chronic medical conditions in a population health survey in the United StatesNan Luo
Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Med Care 47:53-60. 2009....- Determination of the longitudinal validity and minimally important difference of the 8-item Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-8)Nan Luo
Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine and Centre for Health Services Research, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Mov Disord 24:183-7. 2009..The MID of the PDQ-8 estimated in the study will further support the use of this instrument in both clinical research and practice... 
Psychometric evaluation of the Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale (SQLS) in English- and Chinese-speaking Asians in SingaporeNan Luo
Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine and Centre for Health Services Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Qual Life Res 17:115-22. 2008..To assess the psychometric properties of the Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale (SQLS) in Asians with schizophrenia in Singapore...- A comparison of EQ-5D index scores derived from the US and UK population-based scoring functions- Nan Luo
Centre for Health Services Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Med Decis Making 27:321-6. 2007..Empirical studies are needed to examine whether these 2 EQ-5D scoring functions would lead to different conclusions in cost-utility analyses... 
Are Asians comfortable with discussing death in health valuation studies? A study in multi-ethnic SingaporeHwee Lin Wee
Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Republic of Singapore
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:93. 2006....- Optimizing the design of visual analogue scales for assessing quality of life: a semi-qualitative study among Chinese-speaking SingaporeansHwee Lin Wee
Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, and Deparment of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
J Eval Clin Pract 14:121-5. 2008..Current recommendations for visual analogue scale (VAS) design are largely derived from studies on pain assessment. We evaluated respondent preferences for VAS design for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment... - Do English and Chinese EQ-5D versions demonstrate measurement equivalence? An exploratory studyNan Luo
Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Health Qual Life Outcomes 1:7. 2003..We therefore investigated the measurement equivalence of English and Chinese versions of the EQ-5D, a widely used utility-based outcome instrument... - The discriminative power of the EuroQol visual analog scale is sensitive to survey language in SingaporeNan Luo
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Health Qual Life Outcomes 10:32. 2012..We therefore investigated the validity of the Chinese (Singapore) version of EQ-VAS in patients with diabetes... - Factors influencing health-related quality of life of Asians with anxiety disorders in SingaporeNan Luo
Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Qual Life Res 13:557-65. 2004..In conclusion, it can be said that Singaporeans with anxiety disorders experience clinically important reductions in HRQoL; both clinical and socio-demographic factors influence HRQoL in such subjects... - Progression of Parkinson's disease as evaluated by Hoehn and Yahr stage transition timesYing Jiao Zhao
Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Mov Disord 25:710-6. 2010..In conclusion, H&Y transition time is a useful measure of disease progression in PD and may be utilized in clinical studies evaluating therapeutic interventions and prognostic factors in PD... - The English and Chinese versions of the five-level EuroQoL Group's five-dimension questionnaire (EQ-5D) were valid and reliable and provided comparable scores in Asian breast cancer patientsChun Fan Lee
Center for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
Support Care Cancer 21:201-9. 2013..To examine the measurement properties of and comparability between the English and Chinese versions of the five-level EuroQoL Group's five-dimension questionnaire (EQ-5D) in breast cancer patients in Singapore... - Are English- and Chinese-language versions of the SF-6D equivalent? A comparison from a population-based studyHwee Lin Wee
Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Clin Ther 26:1137-48. 2004.... - Comparison of the EuroQol and short form 6D in Singapore multiethnic Asian knee osteoarthritis patients scheduled for total knee replacementFeng Xie
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Arthritis Rheum 57:1043-9. 2007..To compare the EuroQol (EQ-5D) and Short Form 6D (SF-6D) among multiethnic Asian patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) scheduled for total knee replacement in Singapore... - Responsiveness of the EQ-5D and 8-item Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-8) in a 4-year follow-up studyNan Luo
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Block MD3, 16 Medical Drive, Singapore, 117597 Singapore
Qual Life Res 19:565-9. 2010..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the responsiveness of the EQ-5D and the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-8) to deterioration in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD)... - Is EQ-5D a valid quality of life instrument in patients with Parkinson's disease? A study in SingaporeNan Luo
Epidemiology and Public Health and Centre for Health Services Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ann Acad Med Singapore 38:521-8. 2009..The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the validity of the EQ-5D in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) in Singapore... - A study of the construct validity of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) in patients with schizophreniaNan Luo
Health Services Research Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Qual Life Res 15:889-98. 2006..07, 0.09, 0.04 and 0.04 points lower than respective age-, sex- and ethnicity-adjusted population norms (p<0.001 for all, ANCOVA). This study provides evidence for the construct validity of the HUI3 in patients with schizophrenia... - Preference-based SF-6D scores derived from the SF-36 and SF-12 have different discriminative power in a population health surveyNan Luo
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Med Care 50:627-32. 2012..To compare the discriminative power of the SF-6D index scores derived from the SF-36 (SF-6D36) and SF-12 (SF-6D12) in the general population... - The association of survey language (Spanish vs. English) with Health Utilities Index and EQ-5D index scores in a United States population sampleNan Luo
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Centre for Health Services Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 16 Medical Drive, Block MD3, Singapore
Qual Life Res 18:1377-85. 2009..English) in the US Valuation of the EQ-5D Health States study... - Measuring health preferences for Health Utilities Index Mark 3 health states: a study of feasibility and preference differences among ethnic groups in SingaporeNan Luo
Centre for Health Services Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Med Decis Making 27:61-70. 2007..Little is known about the health preferences of Southeast Asians. The authors therefore investigated the feasibility of measuring health preferences of Chinese, Malays, and Indians in Singapore and compared their preference scores... - Using instrument-defined health state transitions to estimate minimally important differences for four preference-based health-related quality of life instrumentsNan Luo
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Centre for Health Services Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 16 Medical Drive, Singapore
Med Care 48:365-71. 2010.... - Predicting gains in dementia caregivingTau Ming Liew
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Alexandra Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 29:115-22. 2010..Being conceptually distinct from burden, factors associated with burden and gain can differ. This study aims to explore factors associated with the experience of gains in dementia caregiving... - A comparison of the EuroQol-5D and the Health Utilities Index mark 3 in patients with rheumatic diseaseNan Luo
Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
J Rheumatol 30:2268-74. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: The EQ-5D and HUI3 performed equally well in measuring utility-based HRQoL in patients with rheumatic disease, although they measured slightly different, though related, dimensions of health... - Measurement properties of the English and Chinese versions of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B) in Asian breast cancer patientsRaymond Ng
Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center, Singapore, Singapore
Breast Cancer Res Treat 131:619-25. 2012..Data collected from the English and Chinese versions can be pooled and either version could be used for bilingual patients... - Drug utilization review of risperidone for outpatients in a tertiary referral hospital in SingaporeNan Luo
Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Hum Psychopharmacol 19:259-64. 2004.... - Acceptance of information and communication technologies for healthcare delivery: a SingHealth Polyclinics studyNan Luo
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ann Acad Med Singapore 38:529-8. 2009..This study aimed to determine the prevalence of short message system (SMS) and internet usage in patients visiting the SingHealth Polyclinics and to measure patients' acceptance of using these technologies in healthcare delivery... - Validity and reliability of the Bengali version of the Hepatitis Quality of Life QuestionnaireZhao Jin Chen
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Qual Life Res 19:1343-8. 2010..In this study, we translated the 56-item Hepatitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (HQLQ) into Bengali and evaluated its validity and reliability... - Validation of the functional assessment of cancer therapy-gastric module for the Chinese populationHui Jun Zhou
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, 16 Medical Drive, Block MD3, Singapore 117597, Singapore
Health Qual Life Outcomes 10:145. 2012..The current study was designed to examine the psychometric properties of FACT-Ga as a GC specific QoL instrument for its future use in Chinese populations... - The Lay Public's Understanding and Perception of Dementia in a Developed Asian NationWai Jia Tan
Ministry of Health Holdings, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dement Geriatr Cogn Dis Extra 2:433-44. 2012..However, poor perception and understanding of dementia are significant barriers. We aim to investigate the public's perception of dementia and identify variables associated with the different profiles of public perception...