Open AccessCorrelation of Changes in Patient-Reported Quality of Life With Physician-Rated Global Impression of Change in Patients With Narcolepsy Participating in a Clinical Trial of Sodium Oxybate: A Post Hoc Analysis
Author(s) -
Richard Bogan,
Jed Black,
Todd J. Swick,
Mortimer Mamelak,
Ružica Kovačević-Ristanović,
Kathleen F. Villa,
Fannie Mori,
J Montplaisir
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
neurology and therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.296
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2193-8253
pISSN - 2193-6536
DOI - 10.1007/s40120-017-0076-6
Subject(s) - medicine , narcolepsy , quality of life (healthcare) , post hoc analysis , sf 36 , vitality , population , clinical global impression , correlation , clinical trial , physical therapy , neurology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , health related quality of life , disease , alternative medicine , nursing , pathology , geometry , mathematics , placebo , philosophy , theology , environmental health
Narcolepsy patients report lower health-related quality of life (HRQoL) than the general population, as measured by the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36). This analysis evaluated whether changes in SF-36 correlated with physician-rated Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGI-C).