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Health and Good quality of Life Outcomes (2016) 14:Page 11 ofTable six Correlations of QDIS-7 with disease-specific and generic measures, five disease groupsDisease Arthritis CKD Cardiovascular Diabetes Z-DEVD-FMKMedChemExpress Z-DEVD-FMK Respiratory N 925 240 542 695 848 Disease-specific severitya 0.72 0.66 0.65 0.54 0.74 Disease-specific QOLb 0.71 0.83 0.72, 0.79 0.72, 0.72 0.83 Generic Physicalc -0.69 -0.44 -0.52 -0.43 -0.58 Generic Mentalc -0.44 -0.43 -0.51 -0.49 -0.QDIS-7 scored so a greater score equals worse overall health Abbreviations: CKD chronic kidney disease a Self-rating of illness severity (5 categories, None-Very Serious) b Disease-specific QOL measures are Arthritis: Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC? Total scale [6]; CKD: Kidney-Disease High-quality of Life 36-item instrument (KDQOL-36TM) Burden scale [11]; Cardiovascular: Angina/MI-Seattle Angina Questionnaire High-quality of Life scale [38] (very first entry N = 275) and CHF-Minnesota Living with Heart Failure?Questionnaire total scale [39] (second entry, N = 267); Diabetes: Difficulty Areas in Diabetes Scale total scale [41] (very first entry) and Diabetes Good quality of Life measure total scale [40] (second entry); Respiratory: St. Subsequently, an independent test of standardized versus study-specific.Which supports QDIS responsiveness as aNorm-based descriptive statistics for 5 disease-specific severity levels for the combined pre-ID sample are documented in Added file 7: Figure S4 for use in interpreting cross-sectional outcomes. QDIS means and medians differed substantially and had been ordered as hypothesized across severity levels. A noteworthy floor effect was observed only in the least serious (None) group.Discussion QDIS combines the strengths of two traditions inside QOL measurement. It harnesses the precision and title= journal.pone.0092276 discriminability of disease-specific assessment using the comprehensiveness of generic QOL assessment. The result is an approach that differs from offered disease-specific measures in noteworthy approaches. Initially, and foremost, itWare et al. Wellness and High-quality of Life Outcomes (2016) 14:Page 11 ofTable six Correlations of QDIS-7 with disease-specific and generic measures, five illness groupsDisease Arthritis CKD Cardiovascular Diabetes Respiratory N 925 240 542 695 848 Disease-specific severitya 0.72 0.66 0.65 0.54 0.74 Disease-specific QOLb 0.71 0.83 0.72, 0.79 0.72, 0.72 0.83 Generic Physicalc -0.69 -0.44 -0.52 -0.43 -0.58 Generic Mentalc -0.44 -0.43 -0.51 -0.49 -0.QDIS-7 scored so a higher score equals worse health Abbreviations: CKD chronic kidney disease a Self-rating of disease severity (5 categories, None-Very Extreme) b Disease-specific QOL measures are Arthritis: Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC? Total scale [6]; CKD: Kidney-Disease Good quality of Life 36-item instrument (KDQOL-36TM) Burden scale [11]; Cardiovascular: Angina/MI-Seattle Angina Questionnaire Excellent of Life scale [38] (initially entry N = 275) and CHF-Minnesota Living with Heart Failure?Questionnaire total scale [39] (second entry, N = 267); Diabetes: Challenge Areas in Diabetes Scale total scale [41] (initial entry) and Diabetes Top quality of Life measure total scale [40] (second entry); Respiratory: St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire total scale [7].