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Stroke rehabilitation pathways during the first year: A cost-effectiveness anal...

Stroke burden challenges global health, and social and economic policies. Although stroke recovery encompasses a wide range of care, including in-hospital, outpatient, and community-based rehabilitation, there are no published cost-effectiveness studies of integrated post-stroke pathways. To determine the most cost-effective rehabilitation pathway during the first 12 months after a f irst-ever stroke. A cohort ...

Psychological, Social, and Economic Burden of COVID-19: A Comparison of Polish ...

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all societies, and its effects relate not only to physical health but also to mental health, social relations, and the economic situation of the population all over the world. This research aims at studying the perceptions of changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in mental health, economic situation, and social relations among Polish and Portuguese young. The pres...

Healthcare, clinical factors and rehabilitation predicting quality of life in f...

Objectives: One of the long-term rehabilitation goals in stroke survivors is to achieve the best health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study analyzes the evolution of HRQoL one-year post-stroke to establish the main pre-stroke, clinical, health care and rehabilitation predictors. Materials and methods: This study uses patient-level data from a one-year single-center prospective cohort study of first stro...

Healthcare, clinical factors and rehabilitation predicting quality of life in f...

One of the long-term rehabilitation goals in stroke survivors is to achieve the best health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study analyzes the evolution of HRQoL one-year post-stroke to establish the main pre-stroke, clinical, health care and rehabilitation predictors. This study uses patient-level data from a one-year single-center prospective cohort study of first stroke patients, assessed at baseline, ...

Does Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery Improve Patients’ Quality of Life?

Introduction: Aortic valve replacement surgery is done to increase patients’ life expectancy and improve their health-related quality of life. Several published studies have found improvement in health-related quality of life after this procedure, but none have involved patients in Portugal. This study sought to evaluate patients’ health-related quality of life after the implantation of aortic prostheses and co...

Assessing quality of life of self-reported rheumatic patients

were used to identify factors associated with HRQoL. Respondents with self-reported RD assigned a lower self-perception to their health status. The burden of disease was observed mainly in physical function, role physical and bodily pain. The EQ-5D-3L dimensions show similar results: the intensity of problems is significantly more evident in respondents with self-reported RD. HRQoL of respondents with self-repo...

Erratum to: Reducing the floor effect in the SF-6D: a feasibility study (vol 7,...

Erratum to: Reducing the Floor Effect in the SF-6D: A Feasibility Study

Comparing the performance of the EQ-5D-3L and the EQ-5D-5L in young Portuguese ...

Background Some studies have reported a ceiling effect in EQ-5D-3L, especially in healthy and/or young individuals. Recently, two further levels have been included in its measurement model (EQ-5D-5L). The purposes of this study were (1) to assess the properties of the EQ-5D-5L in comparison with the standard EQ-5D-3L in a sample of young adults, (2) to foreground the importance of collecting qualitative data to...

Health-related quality of life in patients with trans thyretin familiar amyloid...

Contribution for the Validation of the Portuguese Version of EQ-5D

Introduction: The EQ-5D allows the achievement of two essential components of any measure of health-related quality of life to be used in cost-utility economic evaluations: (i) a profile describing the health status in terms of domains or dimensions; and (ii) a numeric value associated with the health status described.Aim: The Portuguese version of the EQ-5D questionnaire was completed in 1998, based on guideli...