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[Validity of the King's Health questionnaire in the assessment of quality of life of patients with urinary incontinence. The King's Group]X Badia Llach
Institut de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Universidad de Barcelona
Med Clin (Barc) 114:647-52. 2000..To assess the validity of the Spanish version of the King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) for measuring the quality of life of women with different types of urinary incontinence...- Using the EuroQoI 5-D in the Catalan general population: feasibility and construct validityX Badia
Catalan Institute of Public Health, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Qual Life Res 7:311-22. 1998..45 and 0.81, respectively. The Spanish and Catalan versions of the EQ-5D have proved to be feasible and valid for use in health interview surveys... - [The Spanish version of EuroQol: a description and its applications. European Quality of Life scale]X Badia
Instituto de Salud Pública de Cataluña, Universidad de Barcelona
Med Clin (Barc) 112:79-85. 1999..To introduce the EuroQol 5D (EQ-5D) to health care professionals wishing to use it as a measure of health-related quality of life... - Evaluating changes in health status in HIV-infected patients: Medical Outcomes Study-HIV and Multidimensional Quality of Life-HIV quality of life questionnaires. Spanish MOS-HIV and MQOL-HIV Validation GroupX Badia
Catalan Institute of Public Health, University of Barcelona, Spain
AIDS 14:1439-47. 2000..To compare the sensitivity to change of two HIV-health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires--the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS-HIV) and Multidimensional Quality of Life (MQOL-HIV) for use in clinical research... - [Health outcomes research]X Badia
Institut de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona
Med Clin (Barc) 114:1-7. 2000..The results obtained should be incorporated in the evaluative process and in disease management to determine the effectiveness of health care services in improving the population's health... - [Development of the ECOS-16 clinical questionnaire for the assessment of the quality of life in patients with osteoporosis]X Badia
Instituto de Salud Pública de Cataluña, Universidad de Barcelona
Med Clin (Barc) 114:68-75. 2000..The objective of the present study was to develop a new, short questionnaire for women with vertebral fractures due to osteoporosis... - A comparison of United Kingdom and Spanish general population time trade-off values for EQ-5D health statesX Badia
Catalan Institute of Public Health, Universitat de Barcelona, L Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Med Decis Making 21:7-16. 2001..Further analysis is required to determine how these differences affect cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses... - [Validity of the Spanish version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Questionnaire for evaluating quality of life in asthmatic children]X Badia
Institut de Salut Pública de Catalunya Universitat de Barcelona L Hospitalet de Llobregat Barcelona
Med Clin (Barc) 116:565-72. 2001..To analyze the clinical utility of the quality of life questionnaire for asthmatic children (PAQLQ) and to validate it for use in clinical practice... - Measuring quality of life in women with vertebral fractures due to osteoporosis: a comparison of the OQLQ and QUALEFFOX Badia
Institut de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Qual Life Res 10:307-17. 2001..We compared the feasibility, validity and reliability of the osteoporosis quality of life questionnaire (OQLQ) and the QUALEFFO (test version) in women with vertebral deformities due to osteoporosis... - [Evidence-based medicine and the validation of quality-of-life questionnaires: the Spanish version of the MOS-HIV questionnaire for the evaluation of the quality of life in patients infected by HIV]X Badia
Instituto de Salud Pública de Cataluña, Universidad de Barcelona
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 17:103-13. 1999..To validate the Spanish version of the MOS-HIV questionnaire for measuring quality of life in HIV-infected patients... - [A cost-effectiveness analysis of strategies for the diagnosis-treatment of Helicobacter pylori-associated peptic ulcer in primary care]X Badia
Instituto de Salud Pública de Cataluña, Universidad de Barcelona
Aten Primaria 24:344-51. 1999.... - Differences in the methodology and data of economic evaluations of a health programme. The case of hepatitis B vaccination programmes in SpainX Badia
Institut de Salut Pública de Catalunya, University of Barcelona, Spain
Pharmacoeconomics 11:175-83. 1997.... - The influence of ill-health experience on the valuation of healthX Badia
Institut de Salut Pública de Catalunya, University of Barcelona, L Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Pharmacoeconomics 13:687-96. 1998..These results raise difficult questions about whose values should count when health-status measures are incorporated in clinical and economic evaluation, and in particular when deciding upon the allocation of scarce resources... - Determining correspondence between scores on the EQ-5D "thermometer" and a 5-point categorical rating scaleX Badia Llach
Institut de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Pavelló Central, Campus de Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona, L Hospitalet, Spain
Med Care 37:671-7. 1999..quot;Feeling thermometers" and category rating scales (CRS) can be used to measure self-rated health, though the interpretation of scores on the feeling thermometer may be problematic... - Inconsistent responses in three preference-elicitation methods for health statesX Badia
Institut Universitari de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Soc Sci Med 49:943-50. 1999..Future research should concentrate on determining how inconsistencies might affect the values assigned to health states in the final tariff, and not simply the order of those states... - A randomized study comparing instruments for measuring health-related quality of life in HIV-infected patients. Spanish MOS-HIV and MQOL-HIV Validation Group. Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health SurveyX Badia
Catalan Institute of Public Health, University of Barcelona, L Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
AIDS 13:1727-35. 1999..To compare the feasibility, reliability, validity and sensitivity to change of the MOS-HIV and MQOL-HIV in order to determine their suitability for use in clinical research... - Measuring health-related quality of life in patients with mild to moderate eczema and psoriasis: clinical validity, reliability and sensitivity to change of the DLQI. The Cavide Research GroupX Badia
Catalan Institute of Public Health, University of Barcelona, Campus de Bellvitge Ctra de la Feixa Llarga s n, 08907 L Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Br J Dermatol 141:698-702. 1999..In clinical trials of treatments for mild to moderate eczema and psoriasis, it is likely that only items 1 and 2 of the DLQI will be needed, and it is probably advisable to include generic instruments alongside the DLQI... - Influence of sociodemographic and health status variables on the American Urological Association symptom scores in patients with lower urinary tract symptomsX Badia
, Barcelona, Spain
Urology 57:71-7. 2001..The educational level, mood, and presence of pain/discomfort of patients should be taken into account when interpreting scores, as a combination of these characteristics could mean a difference of up to 6 points on the AUA-7... - Development of a short osteoporosis quality of life questionnaire by equating items from two existing instrumentsX Badia
Cochrane Foundation, Outcomes Research Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
J Clin Epidemiol 55:32-40. 2002..Although the new instrument requires further empirical validation, it provides a promising alternative to currently existing longer questionnaires for use in clinical practice... - Highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) and health-related quality of life in naive and pretreated HIV-infected patientsA Casado
Unitat de Recerca en Resultats Sanitaris, Departament d Epidemiología Clínica y Salut Pública, Hospital de la Santa Creu y Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
HIV Clin Trials 2:477-83. 2001.... - Health-related quality of life in HIV-infected naive patients treated with nelfinavir or nevirapine associated with ZDV/3TC (the COMBINE-QoL substudy)A Casado
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
HIV Clin Trials 5:132-9. 2004..CONCLUSION: Differences in HRQoL between study groups at 1 year follow-up were not detected. Nevertheless, a trend toward improvement was observed in summary health scores in ZDV/3TC/NVP-treated patients... - Using the EuroQol-5D to measure changes in quality of life 12 months after discharge from an intensive care unitX Badia
, University of Barcelona, C/ Feixa Llarga s/n, 08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Intensive Care Med 27:1901-7. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: The degree and direction of change in ICU patients' HRQOL 1 year after discharge depends considerably on diagnostic category. Proxy responses can be reliably used with the EQ-5D when measuring change in HRQOL... - Sample size calculations in studies using the EuroQol 5DM Roset
Catalan Institute of Public Health, University of Barcelona, Spain
Qual Life Res 8:539-49. 1999..Using the EQ-5D index in ill populations, it is recommended that sample size calculations are based on parametric methods, whilst in healthier populations non-parametric methods should be used... - Does an educational leaflet improve self-reported adherence to therapy in osteoporosis? The OPTIMA studyM Guilera
Health Outcomes Research Europe, Av Diagonal 618, 1 C D, 08021, Barcelona, Spain
Osteoporos Int 17:664-71. 2006..The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of an educational leaflet on adherence to medication and to assess the association between adherence and health-related quality of life (HRQOL)... - A model of equivalence in the cultural adaptation of HRQoL instruments: the universalist approachM Herdman
Catalan Institute of Public Health, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Qual Life Res 7:323-35. 1998..It should also result in a more sensitive adaptation of existing instruments and provide valuable information for interpreting the results obtained using HRQoL instruments in the target culture... - Irritable bowel syndrome prevalence varies enormously depending on the employed diagnostic criteria: comparison of Rome II versus previous criteria in a general populationF Mearin
Digestive System Research Unit, Hospital Vall d Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Scand J Gastroenterol 36:1155-61. 2001.... - Influence of inflammatory bowel disease on different dimensions of quality of lifeF Casellas
Digestive System Research Unit, Hospital General Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 13:567-72. 2001..05]. CONCLUSIONS: Quality of life is impaired in IBD. During relapse, clinicians should pay attention to digestive symptoms and psychological distress. In remission, they should be sensitive to systemic symptoms... - Relation between clinical and therapeutic variables and quality of life in hypertensionA Roca-Cusachs
Internal Medicine Department, Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
J Hypertens 19:1913-9. 2001..Study the relation between quality of life (QoL) and various clinical, therapeutic and sociodemographic variables in treated hypertensive patients... - Cost-effectiveness analysis of enfuvirtide (ENF) added to an optimized therapy compared with an optimized therapy in patients with HIV/AIDSX Badia
Health Economics and Outcomes Research, IMS Health, Barcelona, Spain
HIV Clin Trials 8:235-45. 2007..Fuzeon (enfuvirtide) (ENF) is the first drug among the HIV fusion inhibitors that has shown high efficacy in HIV-1/AIDS patients resistant to conventional antiretroviral agents... - Predictive factors of irritable bowel syndrome improvement: 1-year prospective evaluation in 400 patientsF Mearin
Institute of Functional and Motor Digestive Disorders, Centro Medico Teknon, Barcelona, Spain
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 23:815-26. 2006..The natural history of the irritable bowel syndrome is poorly understood... - Assessing the quality of life of household members of patients with inflammatory bowel disease: development and validation of a specific questionnaireM Vergara
Digestive System Research Unit, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Am J Gastroenterol 97:1429-37. 2002..It will greatly enhance the possibilities of quantifying the effects of IBD on home life and should become a useful tool in health care planning... - Acromegaly Quality of Life Questionnaire (ACROQOL) a new health-related quality of life questionnaire for patients with acromegaly: development and psychometric propertiesS M Webb
Departments of Endocrinology, Hospital Sant Pau, Autonomous University, Barcelona, Spain
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 57:251-8. 2002..To develop a disease-specific questionnaire suitable to measure health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in acromegaly (ACROQOL)... - The importance of health-related quality-of-life data in determining the value of drug therapyX Badia
Health Care Outcomes Research Unit, Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Service, Hospital de Santa Creu i San Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Clin Ther 23:168-75. 2001..However, the relatively recent advent of these measures makes it difficult to decide how much weight to attribute to them in decisions about the value of drug therapy... - [Cost-minimisation analysis of the pharmacological treatment of epilepsy in Spain]M Rubio
Health Outcomes Policy and Economics, Health Outcomes Research Europe, Barcelona, Spain
Rev Neurol 42:257-64. 2006.... - Iatrogenic cost factors incorporating mild and moderate adverse events in the economic comparison of aceclofenac and other NSAIDsF Peris
Department of Biometry, Almirall Prodesfarma S.A, Barcelona, Spain
Pharmacoeconomics 19:779-90. 2001..CONCLUSION: These results show that the comparative overall costs of NSAIDs bears little relation to drug acquisition cost, and that the ICF is one of the most important determinants of overall costs...