This Review discusses physiological, emotional, behavioural, and cognitive aspects of
psychological adjustment to chronic illness. Reviewing the reports of the past decade, we …

Aims: When individuals experience changes in their health states, they may alter their
internal standards, values, or conceptualization of quality of life (QOL). Such 'response shifts' …

The purpose of this article is to review the current state of outcome measurement in spine
surgery, with an emphasis on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). The commonly …

Purpose Results of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used to
inform healthcare decision-making. Research has shown that response shift can impact …

Importance Patient-reported measures are designed to detect a true change in outcome, but
they are also subject to change from biases inherent to self-reporting: changing internal …

Background At 6 months poststroke, most patients cannot incorporate their affected hand
into daily activities, which in turn is likely to reduce their perceived quality of life. Objective …

Purpose To analyse trends in quality of life (QoL) development among older stroke patients
within the first year after rehabilitation discharge, and to investigate the impact of including …

Studies of response-shift phenomena in quality-of-life (QOL) research have grown steadily
in the more than two decades of research. As a field, we have been calling a lot of different …

Aim The objective of this overview is to review current methodologies of response shift
research in patient-reported outcomes to facilitate and stimulate further research in this area …

The efficacy of treatments for depression is often measured by comparing observed total
scores on self-report inventories, in both clinical practice and research. However, the …