Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
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To assess the reliability and validity of the Japanese translation version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 Short Form 15 (PedsQL 4.0 SF15). ⋯ The Japanese translation version of the PedsQL 4.0 SF15 demonstrates good reliability and validity and could be used as a measure of HRQOL for transcultural comparisons of pediatric research in school settings and healthcare services research.
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Physicians have been found to give lower ratings of patients' pain than do the patients themselves. We hypothesized that the physicians' rating depends not only on the patient's pain rating but also on other cues. We also hypothesized that these cues influence physicians' pain treatment and urgency level. ⋯ Clusters analyses showed two sets of individual differences. When rating pain and choosing pain treatment, physicians gave either a low or high weight to behavioral pain cues. In urgency judgments, physicians could be separated into those who gave considerable weight to the different levels of severity and those who did not.