The Impacts of Severe Asthma on QOL & Productivity
“Asthma diagnosis and management are based on an unclear combination of subjective, symptom-based...
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Endoscopic Sinus Surgery & Sleep Dysfunction
Research has shown that there are important links between quality of life (QOL), sleep quality,...
Enhancing QOL During Radiotherapy for Advanced Cancer
Cancer patients often experience a reduction in quality of life (QOL) during and after cancer...
Considerations for Dosing of Oral Therapies in Metastatic RCC
For patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), oral therapy has improved outcomes and...
End of Life QOL Factors in Advanced Cancer
A cohort study of patients with advanced cancer and their informal caregivers has found that five factors appear to be associated with the highest quality of life (QOL) at the end of life: 1. Avoidance of hospitalization and the...
Web-Based Intervention Gets Women Moving
A team of American researchers has found that a 12-week, web-based physical activity (PA) intervention appears to improve measures of PA and quality of life (QOL) among adult women. In the study, women aged 18 and older received...
Quality Measures for Parkinson’s Disease Care
Quality measures have been developed for many different frameworks of medical care to address structures, processes, and/or outcomes. They also address important components of healthcare quality, including patient safety,...
Physical Activity Recommendations for Patients With Diabetes
This Physician’s Weekly feature on physical activity recommendations for patients with diabetes was completed in cooperation with the experts at the American Diabetes Association. The CDC estimates that 25.8 million...
