613-615
Editorial
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Commentary
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The experience of using the SEIQoL-DW with patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): issues of process and outcome
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The SF-36 component summary scales and the daytime diurnal cortisol profile
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653-664
Effectiveness of a Tai chi Qigong program in promoting health-related quality of life and perceived social support in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease clients
Aileen W. K. Chan, Albert Lee, Lorna K. P. Suen and Wilson W. S. Tam
665-675
Accomplishment level and satisfaction with social participation of older adults: association with quality of life and best correlates
Mélanie Levasseur, Johanne Desrosiers and Gale Whiteneck
677-685
The development of a clinical outcomes survey research application: Assessment CenterSM
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687-700
Open AccessNeck pain patients’ preference scores for their current health
Gabrielle van der Velde, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Pierre Côté and Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas, et al.
701-709
Estimating importance weights for the IWQOL-Lite using conjoint analysis
A. Brett Hauber, Ateesha F. Mohamed, F. Reed Johnson, Olatoye Oyelowo and Bradley H. Curtis, et al.
711-720
Association between utility and treatment among patients with prostate cancer
Ravishankar Jayadevappa, J Sanford Schwartz, Sumedha Chhatre, Alan J. Wein and S. Bruce Malkowicz
721-727
Measurement of quality of life using EQ-5D in patients on prolonged mechanical ventilation: comparison of patients, family caregivers, and nurses
Mei-Chuan Hung, Yuan-Horng Yan, Po-Sheng Fan, Ming-Shian Lin and Cheng-Ren Chen, et al.
729-738
Open AccessHealth state preferences are equivalent in the United States and Trinidad and Tobago
Richard D. Hector, John P. Anderson, Rosemarie C. P. Paul, Robert E. Weiss and Ron D. Hays, et al.
739-750
The Assessment of Quality of life at the End of Life (AQEL) questionnaire: a brief but comprehensive instrument for use in patients with cancer in palliative care
Ingela Henoch, Bertil Axelsson and Bengt Bergman
751-760
Reference values for the Quality of Life Index in the general Swedish population 18–80 years of age
Mats T. Gullberg, Gunilla Hollman-Frisman and Anna-Christina Ek
761-768
Brief Communication
Psychometric properties of the EORTC head and neck–specific quality of life questionnaire in disease-free Greek patients with cancer of pharynx and larynx
Meri Nalbadian, Vasilios Nikolaidis, Agelos Nikolaou, Christos Themelis and Athanasios Kouloulas, et al.