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Health status measurement in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Thorax ·Vol. 56 ·No. 11 ·2001-11-00 ·Pages 880-7

Jones PW

Abstract

Health status measurement is a common feature of studies in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This review assesses recent evidence for the validity of these measurements and their role as measures of the overall impact of the disease on the patient's daily life and wellbeing. It reviews the mostly widely used COPD specific questionnaires and examines the contribution that they make to an assessment of the overall effect of treatment. Finally, it addresses the question of how symptomatic benefit may be assessed in individual patients in routine practice.

MeSH Terms
Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic Forced Expiratory Volume Health Status Health Status Indicators Humans Normal Distribution Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/diagnosis Quality of Life Reproducibility of Results Surveys and Questionnaires Treatment Outcome
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Jones P W
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Division of Physiological Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK. [email protected]
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Article Info
Journal
Thorax
Abbr.
Thorax
ISSN
0040-6376
DOI
10.1136/thorax.56.11.880
Email
[email protected]
Published
2001-11-00
Pages
880-7
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0417353
PMCID
PMC1745959
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1136/thorax.56.11.880 PMC Full Text View journal details
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