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| K W WyrwichSummaryAffiliation: Saint Louis University Country: USA Publications
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Physician-estimated disease severity in patients with chronic heart or lung disease: a cross-sectional analysisKurt Kroenke
Indiana University School of Medicine, Regenstrief Institute, 1059 Wishard Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:60. 2006..We evaluated how well physicians' global estimates of disease severity correspond to more specific physician-rated disease variables as well as patients' self-rated health and other patient variables...
Identifying meaningful differences in vasomotor symptoms among menopausal womenKathleen W Wyrwich
Saint Louis University, 3750 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 230, McGannon Hall, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
Menopause 15:698-705. 2008....- Measuring patient and clinician perspectives to evaluate change in health-related quality of life among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseKathleen W Wyrwich
Research Methodology and Health Services Research, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:161-70. 2007..However, there is a lack of consensus regarding which HRQoL outcome measures are appropriate to assess, and how much change on those measures depict significant HRQoL improvement... 
Understanding global transition assessmentsKathleen W Wyrwich
Department of Research Methodology, Saint Louis University, 3545 Lafayette Ave, Room 370, Saint Louis, MO 63104 1399, USA
Qual Life Res 15:995-1004. 2006..This follow-up study queried patients to better understand how they ascertained their transition assessments...- Interpreting quality-of-life data: methods for community consensus in asthmaKathleen W Wyrwich
Department of Research Methodology, Saint Louis University, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 96:826-33. 2006..Change in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important outcome in asthma treatment. Patient and provider consensus on how to determine thresholds for identifying important improvements and declines, however, has not been achieved... - A blueprint for symptom scales and responses: measurement and reportingK W Wyrwich
Department of Research Methodology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63103, USA
Gut 53:iv45-8. 2004.... - Clinically important differences in health status for patients with heart disease: an expert consensus panel reportKathleen W Wyrwich
Department of Research Methodology, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO 63103, USA
Am Heart J 147:615-22. 2004..No important difference standards for the SF-36 have been published for patients with heart disease. This development of CIDs would facilitate the use of health status measures in daily clinical decision-making... - Minimal important difference thresholds and the standard error of measurement: is there a connection?Kathleen W Wyrwich
Department of Research Methodology and Health Services Research, Saint Louis University, St Louis, Missouri 63103, USA
J Biopharm Stat 14:97-110. 2004..Charting these change levels against their respective SEM-MID criteria provides insight and promise for linking SEM-based criteria to MCID standards for other HRQOL and health status measures... - Clinically important differences in health-related quality of life for patients with asthma: an expert consensus panel reportKathleen W Wyrwich
Saint Louis University Department of Research Methodology, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 91:148-53. 2003.... - Clinically important changes in health-related quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an expert consensus panel reportKathleen W Wyrwich
Saint Louis University, Department of Research Methodology, School of Public Health, St Louis, MO 63103, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:196-202. 2003..The objective of this study was to establish clinically important difference standards from the physician's perspective for use of 2 HRQoL measures among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)... - Using the standard error of measurement to identify important changes on the Asthma Quality of Life QuestionnaireKathleen W Wyrwich
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St Louis, MO 63104 1399, USA
Qual Life Res 11:1-7. 2002..To establish a link between the minimal important difference (MID) and the standard error of measurement (SEM) for all responsive dimensions of the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ)... - Further evidence supporting an SEM-based criterion for identifying meaningful intra-individual changes in health-related quality of lifeK W Wyrwich
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Missouri 63108 3342, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 52:861-73. 1999..The one-SEM criterion should be explored in other health-related quality of life instruments with established MCIDs... - Physical activity, disability, and the risk of hospitalization for breast cancer among older womenK W Wyrwich
School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, Missouri 63108 3342, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 55:M418-21. 2000..4. 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.2-0.9). Because of the intriguing nature of that association, those investigators urged replication before drawing any conclusions... - Linking clinical relevance and statistical significance in evaluating intra-individual changes in health-related quality of lifeK W Wyrwich
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, MO 63108 3342, USA
Med Care 37:469-78. 1999..To compare the standard error of measurement (SEM) with established standards for clinically relevant intra-individual change in an evaluation of health-related quality of life... - Generic versus disease-specific health status measures. An example using coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure patientsF D Wolinsky
St Louis University, National Archive for Computerized Data on Aging, MO 63108 3342, USA
Eval Health Prof 21:216-43. 1998..Although both instruments are appropriate for use among outpatients known to have CAD and/or CHF, the CHQ has significantly better psychometric properties than does the SF-36... - The risk of hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction among older adultsF D Wolinsky
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Missouri 63108 3342, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 54:M254-61. 1999..The purpose of this study was to prospectively examine the risk of hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in a large, nationally representative sample of very old men and women... - Rethinking functional limitation pathwaysF D Wolinsky
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, MO 63108 3342, USA
Gerontologist 40:137-46. 2000.... - Retest reliability of surveillance questions on health related quality of lifeE M Andresen
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Department of Community Health, Salus Center, St Louis, MO 63104 1399, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:339-43. 2003..The authors investigated the retest reliability of four HRQoL questions from the US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)... - The mathematical relationship among different forms of responsiveness coefficientsG R Norman
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MDCL 3519, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
Qual Life Res 16:815-22. 2007..These differences are completely predictable when the underlying analytical form of each coefficient is explicated... - Validity of patient-reported health-related quality of life global ratings of change using structural equation modelingStacie M Metz
Department of Health, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, USA
Qual Life Res 16:1193-202. 2007..Although this approach may be preferred, the validity of the anchor-based approach is currently under scrutiny... - A comparison of traditional and Rasch cut points for assessing clinically important change in health-related quality of life among patients with asthmaStacie M Metz
School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, Salus Center 391 I, 3545 Lafayette Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63104, USA
Qual Life Res 15:1639-49. 2006.... - Assessing fatigue in persons with cancer: further validation of the Wu Cancer Fatigue ScaleHorng Shiuann Wu
Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California San Francisco, 94143, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 32:255-65. 2006..91 for the nine-item scale. The revised WCFS is a reliable and valid instrument that aims to measure the subjective characteristics of CRF from the patients' perspective. It may prove useful in both clinical and research settings... - Triangulating patient and clinician perspectives on clinically important differences in health-related quality of life among patients with heart diseaseKathleen W Wyrwich
Department of Research Methodology, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO, USA
Health Serv Res 42:2257-74; discussion 2294-323. 2007..To use triangulation methodology to better understand clinically important differences (CIDs) in the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with heart disease... - Estimating clinically significant differences in quality of life outcomesKathleen W Wyrwich
Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO 63103, USA
Qual Life Res 14:285-95. 2005..The original six articles were presented at the Symposium on Clinical Significance of Quality of Life Measures in Cancer Patients at the Mayo Clinic in April 2002 and subsequently were published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings... - A comparison of clinically important differences in health-related quality of life for patients with chronic lung disease, asthma, or heart diseaseKathleen W Wyrwich
Department of Research Methodology, Saint Louis University, 221 N. Grand Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
Health Serv Res 40:577-91. 2005..If confirmed among patients with the relevant diseases and those patients' physicians, these disease-specific CIDs could assist both researchers and practicing clinicians in the use and interpretation of HRQL changes over time... - Interpretation of changes in health-related quality of life: the remarkable universality of half a standard deviationGeoffrey R Norman
Program for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Med Care 41:582-92. 2003..A number of studies have computed the minimally important difference (MID) for health-related quality of life instruments... - Is it simple or simplistic?Geoffrey R Norman
Program for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Med Care 41:599-600. 2003 - 9-11, personal stress, mental health, and sense of control among older adultsFredric D Wolinsky
School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, St Louis, Missouri 63104 1314, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58:S146-50. 2003.... - Age, aging, and the sense of control among older adults: a longitudinal reconsiderationFredric D Wolinsky
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58:S212-20. 2003.... - Continuous or emergent EEG: can bedside caregivers recognize epileptiform discharges?Enrique C Leira
Souers Stroke Institute, Department of Neurology, Saint Louis University, 3635 Vista Ave at Grand Blvd, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Intensive Care Med 30:207-12. 2004..We assessed the ability to recognize epileptiform discharges among various nonexpert bedside caregivers. A second objective was to determine whether such skill improves with a simple educational intervention... - Methods to explain the clinical significance of health status measuresGordon H Guyatt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University and Health Sciences Center, Hamilton, Ontario
Mayo Clin Proc 77:371-83. 2002..No single approach to interpretability is perfect. Use of multiple strategies is likely to enhance the interpretability of any particular instrument... - Hospitalization for prostate cancer among the older men in the longitudinal study on aging, 1984-1991Fredric D Wolinsky
School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, Missouri 63104 1399, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 57:M115-21. 2002..A secondary analysis of the older men in the Longitudinal Study on Aging (LSOA) used baseline (1984) interview data and Medicare hospital claims for 1984 through 1991... - Test-retest reliability of the Mirowsky-Ross 2 x 2 Index of the Sense of ControlFredric D Wolinsky
College of Public Health, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, E 205 General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Psychol Rep 94:725-32. 2004..Thus, this sense of control measure has acceptable test-retest reliability and is appropriate for use in longitudinal research... - Bridging the gap: using triangulation methodology to estimate minimal clinically important differences (MCIDs)Nancy Kline Leidy
MEDTAP International, 7101 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 600, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA
COPD 2:157-65. 2005.... - Interpreting the clinical importance of treatment outcomes in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendationsRobert H Dworkin
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
J Pain 9:105-21. 2008.... - Health utility measures and the standard gambleAlex G Garza
Department of Emergency Medicine, Truman Medical Center, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:360-3. 2003