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Evaluation of the Missoula-VITAS Quality of Life Index--revised: research tool or clinical tool?Carolyn E Schwartz
QualityMetric Incorporated, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
J Palliat Med 8:121-35. 2005..The measure has been used to assess QOL for hospice patients, and has been found to be somewhat complex to use and analyze...
Measuring patient treatment preferences in end-of-life care research: applications for advance care planning interventions and response shift researchCarolyn E Schwartz
QualityMetric Incorporated, Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA
J Palliat Med 7:233-45. 2004..Clinical applications of the tool are discussed...
Detecting attitudinal changes about death and dying as a result of end-of-life care curricula for medical undergraduatesCarolyn E Schwartz
QualityMetric Incorporated, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
J Palliat Med 8:975-86. 2005..There is heightened emphasis on teaching end-of-life (EOL) care in the medical school curriculum, but a relative paucity of tools focused on assessing key attitudinal changes due to curricula...
Reconsidering the psychometrics of quality of life assessment in light of response shift and appraisalCarolyn E Schwartz
QualityMetric Incorporated, Waltham, MA, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 2:16. 2004..Recommendations for integrating the assessment of appraisal into QOL research and clinical practice are discussed...
Early intervention in planning end-of-life care with ambulatory geriatric patients: results of a pilot trialCarolyn E Schwartz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01742, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:1611-8. 2002..This article describes a randomized trial to evaluate the short-term clinical utility of early ACP. We also assessed the feasibility of performing a larger prospective study to document long-term outcomes...
Response shift theory: important implications for measuring quality of life in people with disabilityCarolyn E Schwartz
DeltaQuest Foundation Inc, Concord, MA 01742, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 88:529-36. 2007..We then submit a set of suggested directions for future measurement development in populations with disabilities that consider these distinctions and extend their use in future measurement developments...
The clinical significance of adaptation to changing health: a meta-analysis of response shiftCarolyn E Schwartz
DeltaQuest Foundation, Inc, Concord, MA 01742, USA
Qual Life Res 15:1533-50. 2006..To fill this gap in knowledge about response shift phenomena, we performed a meta-analysis on published QOL articles on response shift...
The long-term impact of dialysis discontinuation on familiesJulie McCole Phillips
Indian Health Service, Chinle Hospital, Chinle, Arizona, USA
J Palliat Med 8:79-85. 2005..The findings suggest that families successfully adapt to the impact of dialysis withdrawal deaths...
Development and testing of a new instrument for measuring concerns about dying in health care providersKathleen M Mazor
Department of Medicine, Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
Assessment 11:230-7. 2004..The CAD has the advantage of being very brief and of explicitly assessing concerns about working with patients who are dying...
Toward a theoretical model of quality-of-life appraisal: Implications of findings from studies of response shiftBruce D Rapkin
Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 2:14. 2004....
An introduction to quality of life assessment in oncology: the value of measuring patient-reported outcomesCarolyn E Schwartz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
Am J Manag Care 8:S550-9. 2002....
Disease-related emotional distress of Hispanic and non-Hispanic type 2 diabetes patientsGarry Welch
Behavioral Medicine Research, Baystate Medical Center, 140 High Street, Room 2104, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
Ethn Dis 17:541-7. 2007..Little comparative research has been conducted on the emotional distress experienced by Hispanic patients living with type 2 diabetes...
