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Anderson IM, Jones S, Twiss J. Do negative cognitive style and personality predict depression symptoms and functional outcomes in severe bipolar and unipolar disorders? Int J Cogn Ther. 2009 Dec 15;2(4):343-53. doi: 10.1521/ijct.2009.2.4.343

Sherrill B, Amonkar M, Sherif B, Maltzman J, O'Rourke L, Johnston S. An exploration of the association of qol scores with tumor progression status in first-line hr+, her2+ mbc patients treated with lapatinib plus letrozole or letrozole alone. Poster presented at the 32nd San Antoniio Breast Cancer Symposium Annual Meeting; December 14, 2009.

Sherrill B, Amonkar MM, Sherif BN, Maltzman J, O'Rourke L, Johnston S. An exploration of the association of Quality-of-Life (QOL) scores with tumor progression status in first line hormone receptor positive, HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) patients treated with lapatinib plus letrozole or letrozole alone. Poster presented at the Thirty-Second Annual CTRC‐AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; December 2009. San Antonio, TX. [abstract] Cancer Res. 2009 Dec; 69(24 (Suppl)):5106. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.SABCS-09-5106

Spiegel B, Camilleri M, Bolus R, Andresen V, Chey WD, Fehnel S, Mangel A, Talley NJ, Whitehead WE. Psychometric evaluation of patient-reported outcomes in irritable bowel syndrome randomized controlled trials: a Rome foundation report. Gastroenterology. 2009 Dec 1;137(6):1944-53.

Chatzi L, Plana E, Pappas A, Alegkakis D, Karakosta P, Daraki V. The metabolic syndrome in early pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Metab. 2009 Dec;35(6):490-4.

Ferreira-Gonzalez I, Marsal JR, Mitjavila F, Parada A, Ribera A, Cascant P, Soriano N, Sanchez PL, Aros F, Heras M, Bueno H, Marrugat J, Cunat J, Civeira E, Permanyer-Miralda G. Patient registries of acute coronary syndrome: assessing or biasing the clinical real world data? Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2009 Nov;2(6):540-7. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.108.844399

Oglesby A, Sherif B, Odom D, Leahy M, Qian Y. Time and costs associated with preparing and administering zoledronic acid in patients with breast or prostate cancer and metastatic bone disease. Community Oncol. 2009 Nov 1;6(11):494-502.

Foster T, Brown TM, Chang J, Menssen HD, Blieden MB, Herzog TJ. A review of the current evidence for maintenance therapy in ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 2009 Nov 1;115:290-301.

Mast TC, Zhu XS, Demuro-Mercon C, Cummings HW, Sings HL, Ferris DG. Development and psychometric properties of the HPV Impact Profile (HIP) to assess the psychosocial burden of HPV. Curr Med Res Opin. 2009 Nov 1;25(11):2609-19.

Varas-Lorenzo C, Castellsaque J, Stang MR, Perez-Gutthann S, Aguado J, Rodriguez LA. The use of selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors and the risk of acute myocardial infarction in Saskatchewan, Canada. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2009 Nov;18(11):1016-25.

Sunyer J, Forastiere F, Pekkanen J, Plana E, Kolz M, Pistelli R. Interaction between smoking and the interleukin-6 gene affects systemic levels of inflammatory biomarkers. Nicotine Tob Res. 2009 Nov;11(11):1347-53.

Fehnel S. Establishing optimal requirements for content validity: a work in progress. Value Health. 2009 Nov 1;12(8):1074.

Jung T, Scott T, Davies HTO, Bower P, Whalley D, McNally R, Mannion R. Instruments for exploring organizational culture: a review of the literature. Public Adm Rev. 2009 Oct 12;69(6):1087-96.

Sherrill B, Sherif BN, Amonkar M, Wu Y, Maltzman J, O'Rourke L, Johnston S. Quality of life and quality-adjusted survival (Q-TWIST) in patients receiving lapatinib plus letrozole as first-line therapy in hormone receptor positive, her2+ metastatic breast cancer. Poster presented at the Cancer Symposium of the American Society of Clinical Oncology; October 10, 2009.

Curtis B, Hayes C, Fehnel SE, Kolotkin R. Assessing the impact of weight loss among obese individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Society; October 1, 2009.

Wilburn J, McKenna SP, Twiss J. Further developments of the rheumatoid arthritis quality of life scale (RAQoL). Poster presented at the 2009 ISPOR 12th Annual European Congress; October 2009. Paris, Spain. [abstract] Value Health. 2009 Oct; 12(7):A447-8. doi: 10.1016/S1098-3015(10)75215-3

Odom DM, Bennett L, Irish W, Mladsi DM. Statistical methods to handle incomplete longitudinal patient-reported outcomes data in advanced disease stage trials. Presented at the 2009 ISPOR 12th Annual European Congress; October 2009. Paris, France.

Twiss J, Doward LC, McKenna SP, Eckert B. Interpreting scores on the multiple sclerosis-specific PRIMUS and U-FIS outcome measures. Poster presented at the 2009 ISPOR 12th Annual European Congress; October 2009. Paris, France. [abstract] Value Health. 2009 Oct; 12(7):A373. doi: 10.1016/S1098-3015(10)74836-1

Twiss J, McKenna SP, Preston E, Meads DM. Can we rely on scores from the dermatology life quality index? Poster presented at the 2009 ISPOR 12th Annual European Congress; October 2009. Paris, France. [abstract] Value Health. 2009 Oct; 12(7):A460. doi: 10.1016/S1098-3015(10)75277-3

Zhou X, Cella D, Cameron D, Amonkar MM, Segreti A, Stein S, Walker M, Geyer CE. Lapatinib plus capecitabine versus capecitabine alone for HER2+(ErbB2+) metastatic breast cancer: quality-of-life assessment. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009 Oct 1;117(3):577-89. doi: 10.1007/s10549-009-0310-8

DeMuro-Mercon CJ, DiBenedetti DB, Lewis SA, Fehnel SE. Successful implementation of the cognitive interview in special populations. Presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research; October 1, 2009.

Nelson LM, Copley-Merriman K, Norquist J, Powers J. PRO evidence dossier: evidence to support labeling and promotional claims for FDA-regulated medicine products. Poster presented at the International Society for Quality of Life Research Workshop #3; October 2009.

Nelson LM, McLeod LD, Lee J, Hill C, Sweeney CT, Sun P. Effects of insulin therapy on the Diabetes Symptom Checklist-Revised (DSC-R): data from a large insulin clinical trial. Presented at the 2009 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research; October 2009. New Orleans, LA.

Choy EH, Arnold LM, Clauw DJ, Crofford LJ, Glass JM, Simon LS, Martin SA, Strand CV, Williams DA, Mease PJ. Content and criterion validity of the preliminary core dataset for clinical trials in fibromyalgia syndrome. J Rheumatol. 2009 Oct 1;36(10):2330-4.

Dittmer DP, Chugh P, Yang D, Borowiak M, Ziemiecki RM, O'Hara AJ. Analysis and QC for real-time QPCR arrays of human microRNAs. In: Yuriy Gusev, editors. MicroRNA profiling in cancer: a bioinformatics perspective. Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing (October 31, 2009); 2009. p.47-69.

Hill C, McLeod LD. Advanced psychometric methods for PRO development - Item response theory. Presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research; October 2009.

Mease P, Arnold LM, Choy EH, Clauw DJ, Crofford LJ, Glass JM, Martin SA, Morea J, Simon L, Strand CV, Williams DA. Fibromyalgia syndrome module at OMERACT 9: domain construct. J Rheumatol. 2009 Oct 1;36(10):2318-29.

Brown TM, Holm-Larsen T. Developing a global strategy for using ePROs in multi-national clinical trials. Presented at the International Society for Quality of Life Research Conference; October 2009.

Hong J, Reed C, Novick D, Haro JM, Aguado J. Clinical and economic consequences of medication nonadherence in the treatment of patients with a manic/mixed episode of bipolar disorder: results from the European Mania in Bipolar Longitudinal Evaluation of Medication (EMBLEM) study. Poster presented at the 2009 ISPOR 12th Annual European Congress; October 2009. Paris, France. [abstract] Value Health. 2009 Oct; 12(7):A355.

Chatzi L, Plana E, Daraki V, Karakosta P, Alegkakis D, Tsatsanis C. Metabolic syndrome in early pregnancy and risk of preterm birth. Am J Epidemiol. 2009 Oct 1;170(7):829-36.

Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Martinez D, Grellier J, Bennett J, Best N, Iszatt N, Vrijheid M, Toledano MB. Chlorination disinfection by-products in drinking water and congenital anomalies: review and meta-analyses. Environ Health Perspect. 2009 Oct;117(10):1486-93. doi: 10.1289/ehp.0900677

Jacquemin B, Sunyer J, Forsberg B, Aguilera I, Buoso L, Briggs D, de Marco R, Garcia-Esteban R, Henrich J, Jarvis D, Maldonado JA, Payo F, Rage E, Vienneau D, Kunzli N. Association between modelled traffic-related air pollution and asthma score in the ECRHS. Eur Respir J. 2009 Oct;34(4):834-42. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00138208

Zock JP, Plana E, Anto JM, Benke G, Blanc PD, Carosso A. Domestic use of hypochlorite bleach, atopic sensitization, and respiratory symptoms in adults. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Oct;124(4):731-738 e.

Meads DM, Doward LC, McKenna SP, Fisk J, Twiss J, Eckert B. The development and validation of the Unidimensional Fatigue Impact Scale (U-FIS). Mult Scler. 2009 Oct 1;15(10):1228-38. doi: 10.1177/1352458509106714

Sherrill B, Amonkar M, Sherif BN, Maltzman J, O'Rourke L, Johnston S. A q-twist analysis of lapatinib plus letrozole compared with letrozole alone as first-line therapy in hormone receptor positive (HR+) metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Poster presented at the Joint 15th Congress of the European Cancer Organization and 34th Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology; September 25, 2009.

Ferreira-Gonzalez I, Permanyer Miralda G, Heras M, Ribera A, Marsal JR, Cascant P, Aros F, Bueno H, Sanchez PL, Cunat J, Civeira E, Marrugat J, Investigadores del Estudio MASCARA. Prognosis and management of patients with acute coronary syndrome and polyvascular disease. Rev Esp Cardiol. 2009 Sep;62(9):1012-21. doi: 10.1016/s1885-5857(09)73267-0

Doward LC, McKenna SP, Meads DM, Twiss J, Eckert BJ. The development of Patient Reported Outcome Indices for Multiple Sclerosis (PRIMUS). Mult Scler. 2009 Sep 1;15(9):1092-102.

Rosen R, Shifren J, Monz B, Odom D, Russo P, Johannes C. The predictors of sexual distress in women with low sexual desire. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health; September 1, 2009.

Guxens M, Mendez MA, Julvez J, Plana E, Forns J, Basagana X. Cognitive function and overweight in preschool children. Am J Epidemiol. 2009 Aug 15;170(4):438-46.

Cappelleri JC, Bushmakin AG, McDermott AM, Dukes E, Sadosky A, Petrie CD, Martin SA. Measurement properties of the medical outcomes study sleep scale in patients with fibromyalgia. Sleep Med. 2009 Aug;10(7):766-70.

Kunzli N, Bridevaux PO, Liu LJ, Garcia-Esteban R, Schindler C, Gerbase MW, Sunyer J, Keidel D, Rochat T, Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults. Traffic-related air pollution correlates with adult-onset asthma among never-smokers. Thorax. 2009 Aug;64(8):664-70. doi: 10.1136/thx.2008.110031

Aguilera I, Guxens M, Garcia-Esteban R, Corbella T, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Foradada CM, Sunyer J. Association between GIS-based exposure to urban air pollution during pregnancy and birth weight in the INMA Sabadell Cohort. Environ Health Perspect. 2009 Aug;117(8):1322-7. doi: 10.1289/ehp.0800256

Whalley D, Sanders T, Sibbald B. Why do practitioners work in deprived areas? Identifying affinity factors for urban deprived general practice. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care; July 2009.

Arbuckle R, Clark M, Harness J, Bonner N, Scott J, Draelos Z, Rizer R, Yeh Y, Copley-Merriman K. Item reduction and psychometric validation of the oily skin self assessment scale (OSSAS) and the oily skin impact scale (OSIS). Value Health. 2009 Jul 1;12(5):828-37.

Perez L, Medina-Ramon M, Kunzli N, Alastuey A, Pey J, Perez N, Garcia R, Tobias A, Querol X, Sunyer J. Size fractionate particulate matter, vehicle traffic, and case-specific daily mortality in Barcelona, Spain. Environ Sci Technol. 2009 Jul 1;43(13):4707-14. doi: 10.1021/es8031488

McLeod LD. Estimating minimally important differences: trying to answer the so what? Presented at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute: 2009 Summer Program on Psychometrics; July 2009.

Martin S, Chandran A, Zografos L, Zlateva G. Evaluation of the impact of fibromyalgia on patients' sleep and the content validity of two sleep scales. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2009 Jul 1;7:64.

Brown TM, Lee WC, Joshi AV, Pashos CL. Health-related quality of life and productivity impact in haemophilia patients with inhibitors. Haemophilia. 2009 Jul 1;15(4):911-7.

Glück S, Russell C, O'Shaughnessy J, Yuan G, Odom DM, Sherrill B, Blum J. Relationship between survival and estrogen receptor status in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with capecitabine and docetaxel: an exploratory data analysis. Poster presented at the 2009 ASCO Annual Meeting; June 4, 2009.

Blum J, Hu S, Odom DM, Sherrill B, Glück S. Effect of age on overall survival in capecitabine- treated patients with metastatic breast cancer. Poster presented at the 2009 ASCO Annual Meeting; June 4, 2009.