Validation of the United States' version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) instrument.

Ready, set, stop: reflections on assessing quality of life and the WHOQOL-100 (U.S. version). World Health Organization Quality of Life. J Clin Epidemiol (2000) 2.30

Psychometric properties of the Iranian interview-administered version of the World Health Organization's Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF): a population-based study. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 2.27

The case for considering quality of life in addiction research and clinical practice. Addict Sci Clin Pract (2011) 2.22

Don't wanna go through that madness no more: quality of life satisfaction as predictor of sustained remission from illicit drug misuse. Subst Use Misuse (2009) 1.63

Psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF in an Iranian adult sample. Community Ment Health J (2010) 1.57

Quality of life associated with treatment adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 1.22

Prospective patterns and correlates of quality of life among women in substance abuse treatment. Drug Alcohol Depend (2012) 1.18

Epidemiology of lung cancer prognosis: quantity and quality of life. Methods Mol Biol (2009) 1.14

Quality of life of Chinese urban community residents: a psychometric study of the mainland Chinese version of the WHOQOL-BREF. BMC Med Res Methodol (2012) 1.14

Self-reported health status and quality of life in youth with cerebral palsy and typically developing youth. Arch Phys Med Rehabil (2008) 1.03

Does treatment adherence correlates with health related quality of life? Findings from a cross sectional study. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.01

Non-adherence to self-care practices & medication and health related quality of life among patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.98

The relationship of physical activity to health status and quality of life in cerebral palsy. Pediatr Phys Ther (2008) 0.91

Development and validation of a new Prescription Quality Index. Br J Clin Pharmacol (2010) 0.90

Injection Drug User Quality of Life Scale (IDUQOL): findings from a content validation study. Health Qual Life Outcomes (2007) 0.89

The Science of Conducting Research With LGBT Older Adults- An Introduction to Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (NHAS). Gerontologist (2017) 0.88

Quality of life improved following in-patient substance use disorder treatment. Health Qual Life Outcomes (2015) 0.87

Evaluation of sexual function, quality of life, and mental and physical health in pregnant women. J Family Reprod Health (2013) 0.87

The impact of malocclusions on oral health-related quality of life in children-a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Oral Investig (2015) 0.87

Quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS) and role of fatigue, depression, anxiety, and stress: A bicenter study from north of Iran. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res (2014) 0.84

Development, reliability and validity of the Chichewa WHOQOL-BREF in adults in Lilongwe, Malawi. BMC Res Notes (2012) 0.83

Examination of a theoretical model for oral health-related quality of life among youths with cleft. Am J Public Health (2014) 0.82

Quality of life of breast cancer patients medicated with anti-estrogens, 2 years after acupuncture treatment: a qualitative study. Int J Womens Health (2010) 0.82

Pre-diagnosis quality of life (QoL) in patients with hematuria: comparison of bladder cancer with other causes. Qual Life Res (2012) 0.82

Quality of life in mentally ill, physically ill and healthy individuals: the validation of the Greek version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-100) questionnaire. Ann Gen Psychiatry (2009) 0.80

Maternal Quality of Life before and after Delivery. Iran Red Crescent Med J (2013) 0.80

Quality of life of Nigerians living with human immunodeficiency virus. Pan Afr Med J (2014) 0.79

Quality of Life in Infertile Menopausal Women; Development and Psychometric of an Instrument. J Clin Diagn Res (2016) 0.78

Health locus of control and cardiovascular risk factors in veterans with type 2 diabetes. Endocrine (2015) 0.78

The minimal clinical important difference in the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument--100. Support Care Cancer (2012) 0.78

Translation and validation of the Chinese version of the Quality OF Life Radiation Therapy Instrument and the Head & Neck Module (QOL-RTI/H&N). Health Qual Life Outcomes (2014) 0.77

Who Says I Do: The Changing Context of Marriage and Health and Quality of Life for LGBT Older Adults. Gerontologist (2017) 0.75

Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Community Integration Measure for community-dwelling people with schizophrenia. Int J Ment Health Syst (2017) 0.75

A randomized study of the use of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for drug and alcohol use with jail inmates. J Subst Abuse Treat (2016) 0.75

Efficacy of illness perception focused intervention on quality of life, anxiety, and depression in patients with myocardial infarction. J Res Med Sci (2016) 0.75

Quality of life and performing acupuncture on 150 patients suffering from chronic pains: a randomized and intervention study before and after performing. Iran Red Crescent Med J (2013) 0.75

Social Network Types and Mental Health Among LGBT Older Adults. Gerontologist (2017) 0.75

Psychometric evaluation of the persian version of the 'aging male scales' questionnaire. Int J Prev Med (2014) 0.75

Factors influencing quality of life of obese students in Hangzhou, China. PLoS One (2015) 0.75

Effect of videotape for home instruction on the quality of life of tracheostomy patients: a randomized clinical trial. J Med Life (2015) 0.75

Investigation of relationship between social capital and quality of life in female headed families. Med J Islam Repub Iran (2015) 0.75

Prior Military Service, Identity Stigma, and Mental Health Among Transgender Older Adults. Gerontologist (2017) 0.75

Three-pronged assessment and diagnosis of personality disorder and its consequences: personality functioning, pathological traits, and psychosocial disability. Personal Disord (2014) 0.75

The Unfolding of LGBT Lives: Key Events Associated With Health and Well-being in Later Life. Gerontologist (2017) 0.75

Race/Ethnicity and Health-Related Quality of Life Among LGBT Older Adults. Gerontologist (2017) 0.75

Patient-reported outcomes for patients undergoing radical cystectomy: a prospective case-control study. Support Care Cancer (2013) 0.75

Medication Adherence Among Nigerians with Schizophrenia: Correlation Between Clinico-Demographic Factors and Quality of Life. Ment Illn (2017) 0.75

Screening for depression in well older adults: evaluation of a short form of the CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale). Am J Prev Med (1994) 18.43

Analysis of variance for gene expression microarray data. J Comput Biol (2000) 16.28

Measuring health-related quality of life. Ann Intern Med (1993) 11.84

Interleukin-1 polymorphisms associated with increased risk of gastric cancer. Nature (2000) 8.96

Characterization of a continuous T-cell line susceptible to the cytopathic effects of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-associated retrovirus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1985) 8.53

Theoretical perspectives on the relation between catastrophizing and pain. Clin J Pain (2001) 6.49

Genomic heterogeneity of AIDS retroviral isolates from North America and Zaire. Science (1985) 6.31

A Polycomb-group gene regulates homeotic gene expression in Arabidopsis. Nature (1997) 5.65

Survival in medically treated patients with homozygous beta-thalassemia. N Engl J Med (1994) 5.32

Posttranscriptional selection of simian virus 40-specific RNA. J Virol (1975) 4.87

Reproducibility and responsiveness of health status measures. Statistics and strategies for evaluation. Control Clin Trials (1991) 4.87

Radiotherapy alone versus combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy in nonresectable non-small-cell lung cancer: first analysis of a randomized trial in 353 patients. J Natl Cancer Inst (1991) 4.24

Methods for measuring levels of well-being for a health status index. Health Serv Res (1973) 4.18

The Maine Lumbar Spine Study, Part III. 1-year outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of lumbar spinal stenosis. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (1996) 4.11

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome after cardiac operations. Ann Thorac Surg (1996) 3.77

A prospective study of advance directives for life-sustaining care. N Engl J Med (1991) 3.72

Enhanced gene delivery and mechanism studies with a novel series of cationic lipid formulations. J Biol Chem (1994) 3.41

Toward an operational definition of health. J Health Soc Behav (1973) 3.39

Depressive symptoms and the cost of health services in HMO patients aged 65 years and older. A 4-year prospective study. JAMA (1997) 3.36

High levels of untreated distress and fatigue in cancer patients. Br J Cancer (2004) 3.15

Mice deficient for delta- and mu-opioid receptors exhibit opposing alterations of emotional responses. Nat Genet (2000) 3.10

Further validation of the IBS-QOL: a disease-specific quality-of-life questionnaire. Am J Gastroenterol (2000) 2.95

Evaluating quality-of-life and health status instruments: development of scientific review criteria. Clin Ther (1997) 2.92

The Maine Lumbar Spine Study, Part II. 1-year outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of sciatica. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (1996) 2.91

Cell-to-cell spread of HIV-1 occurs within minutes and may not involve the participation of virus particles. Virology (1992) 2.71

ERM proteins in cell adhesion and membrane dynamics. Trends Cell Biol (1999) 2.71

Transfer of the shared epitope through microchimerism in women with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum (2009) 2.69

Seven chronic conditions: their impact on US adults' activity levels and use of medical services. Am J Public Health (1995) 2.65

Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome. Br J Surg (2004) 2.61

The effect of weight loss on the sensitivity of blood pressure to sodium in obese adolescents. N Engl J Med (1989) 2.51

Disablement and care: a comparison of patient views and general practitioner knowledge. J R Coll Gen Pract (1982) 2.50

The Quebec Task Force classification for Spinal Disorders and the severity, treatment, and outcomes of sciatica and lumbar spinal stenosis. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (1996) 2.41

Partial trisomy 16p in an adolescent with autistic disorder and Tourette's syndrome. Am J Med Genet (1994) 2.40

Emergency department sonography by emergency physicians. Am J Emerg Med (1989) 2.35

Medication adherence in rheumatoid arthritis patients: older is wiser. J Am Geriatr Soc (1999) 2.34

Adherence of infected erythrocytes to venular endothelium selects for antigenic variants of Plasmodium falciparum. J Immunol (1992) 2.29

Naturally occurring "Rochalimaea henselae" infection in domestic cat. Lancet (1992) 2.28

Selected methodological issues in evaluating community-based health promotion and disease prevention programs. Annu Rev Public Health (1992) 2.26

Epidemiology and cost of herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia in the United Kingdom. Epidemiol Infect (2008) 2.26

Protocol of the COSMIN study: COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments. BMC Med Res Methodol (2006) 2.23

Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus isolates from trauma patients. J Clin Microbiol (1998) 2.22

Quality of life of women with urinary incontinence: further development of the incontinence quality of life instrument (I-QOL) Urology (1999) 2.21

Barriers to the use of health status measures in clinical investigation, patient care, and policy research. Med Care (1989) 2.21

Assessment of health-related quality of life in patients with interstitial lung disease. Chest (1999) 2.21

Molecular analysis of the yellow locus of Drosophila. EMBO J (1986) 2.20

Stability of choices about life-sustaining treatments. Ann Intern Med (1994) 2.20

Quality adjusted life years in older adults with depressive symptoms and chronic medical disorders. Int Psychogeriatr (2000) 2.18

Ezrin is a cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase anchoring protein. EMBO J (1997) 2.16

Life-sustaining treatments during terminal illness: who wants what? J Gen Intern Med (1993) 2.15

TLR-signaling networks: an integration of adaptor molecules, kinases, and cross-talk. J Dent Res (2010) 2.14

Estimating the prevalence of disability in the community: the influence of sample design and response bias. J Epidemiol Community Health (1981) 2.11

Why don't patients and physicians talk about end-of-life care? Barriers to communication for patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and their primary care clinicians. Arch Intern Med (2000) 2.09

Is emergency medicine a specialty? Quebec MDs disagree over controversial issue. CMAJ (1992) 2.03

Alternating radiotherapy and chemotherapy in 173 consecutive patients with limited small cell lung carcinoma. GROP and the French Cancer Center's Lung Group. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys (1990) 2.03

The family conference as a focus to improve communication about end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: opportunities for improvement. Crit Care Med (2001) 2.03

Transforming self-rated health and the SF-36 scales to include death and improve interpretability. Med Care (2001) 1.99

Calpain 3 deficiency is associated with myonuclear apoptosis and profound perturbation of the IkappaB alpha/NF-kappaB pathway in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A. Nat Med (1999) 1.94

Evaluation of a postal screening questionnaire to identify the physically disabled. Int Rehabil Med (1980) 1.94

Canadians' access to abortion still limited, activists argue. CMAJ (1992) 1.94

Longitudinal investigation of depression outcomes in primary care in six countries: the LIDO study. Functional status, health service use and treatment of people with depressive symptoms. Psychol Med (2002) 1.94

Ezrin has properties to self-associate at the plasma membrane. J Cell Sci (1994) 1.85

The mental health patient profile: does it change primary care physicians' practice patterns? J Am Board Fam Pract (1997) 1.83

The cost-effectiveness of lung transplantation. A pilot study. University of Washington Medical Center Lung Transplant Study Group. Chest (1995) 1.81

Patient-physician communication about end-of-life care for patients with severe COPD. Eur Respir J (2004) 1.78

Vision and hearing during deferoxamine therapy. J Pediatr (1990) 1.75

Detection of hypertension. Blood pressure determination in outpatient clinics of medical school-affiliated training programs. JAMA (1975) 1.75

Infections in adult liver transplant patients under FK 506 immunosuppression. Transplant Proc (1991) 1.75

Quality of life measurement: will we ever be satisfied? J Clin Epidemiol (2000) 1.74

Reproducibility and responsiveness of the VF-14. An index of functional impairment in patients with cataracts. Arch Ophthalmol (1995) 1.74

Quality of life of persons with urinary incontinence: development of a new measure. Urology (1996) 1.74

Measuring quality of life in clinical trials: a taxonomy and review. CMAJ (1989) 1.73

CT angiography clot burden score and collateral score: correlation with clinical and radiologic outcomes in acute middle cerebral artery infarct. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol (2009) 1.72

Screening for disability in the inner city. J Epidemiol Community Health (1981) 1.72

The role of interleukin-1 polymorphisms in the pathogenesis of gastric cancer. Nature (2001) 1.71

Parent-child relationships and the management of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. J Consult Clin Psychol (1994) 1.70

The attitudes of patients with advanced AIDS toward use of the medical futility rationale in decisions to forego mechanical ventilation. Arch Intern Med (2000) 1.69

Issues in the measurement of satisfaction with treatment. Am J Manag Care (1997) 1.67

Modulation of hippocampal cell proliferation, memory, and amyloid plaque deposition in APPsw (Tg2576) mutant mice by isolation stress. Neuroscience (2004) 1.66

Word-frequency effects on short-term memory tasks: evidence for a redintegration process in immediate serial recall. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn (1997) 1.65

Effects of self-perceived hair loss in a community sample of men. Dermatology (1998) 1.64

Menstrual function and bone mass in elite women distance runners. Endocrine and metabolic features. Ann Intern Med (1985) 1.63

The concept of quality of life of dying persons in the context of health care. J Pain Symptom Manage (1999) 1.62

Sleep problems and their correlates in a working population. J Gen Intern Med (1995) 1.62

Emergence of a highly pathogenic simian/human immunodeficiency virus in a rhesus macaque treated with anti-CD8 mAb during a primary infection with a nonpathogenic virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1999) 1.61

The membrane-microfilament linker ezrin is involved in the formation of the immunological synapse and in T cell activation. Immunity (2001) 1.61

Long-term results of pediatric liver transplantation: an analysis of 569 transplants. Ann Surg (1998) 1.59

Spending priorities in Kent: a Delphi study. J Epidemiol Community Health (1981) 1.59

Optimising the dose of capecitabine in metastatic breast cancer: confused, clarified or confirmed? Ann Oncol (2010) 1.55

Intravenous apoptotic spleen cell infusion induces a TGF-beta-dependent regulatory T-cell expansion. Cell Death Differ (2006) 1.55

The maize transposable element system Ac/Ds as a mutagen in Arabidopsis: identification of an albino mutation induced by Ds insertion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1993) 1.54

Elevated levels of the angiogenic cytokines basic fibroblast growth factor and vascular endothelial growth factor in sera of cancer patients. Br J Cancer (1997) 1.54

The detection and quantitation of SV40 nucleic acid sequences using single-stranded SV40 DNA probes. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol (1975) 1.53

Lungworm infection in dogs. Vet Rec (1998) 1.51

Programming behavior change and reintegration into school milieux of extreme adolescent deviates. Behav Res Ther (1968) 1.50

In planta transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Gen Genet (1994) 1.48

Abnormal basement membrane in tumors induced by rat colon cancer cells. Gastroenterology (1994) 1.48

Meta-analysis of the efficacy and tolerability of pramipexole versus ropinirole in the treatment of restless legs syndrome. Sleep Med (2008) 1.48

Patients' and families' preferences for medical intensive care. JAMA (1988) 1.48