Health utility of patients with established rheumatoid arthritis and its influencing factors: a multi-center study in China.

To assess the health utility value (HUV) of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients and its influencing factors in China. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 8 tertiary hospitals across four capital-cities. The demographic characteristics, patient-reported outcomes including the HUV got by EQ-5D-5L, clinical characteristics, and clinician-reported outcomes of 171 RA patients were collected both from themselves and their physicians.

Current status of treatment and disease burden of a cohort of hemophilia B in China.

Objective: Hemophilia B is a rare X-chromosome linked hereditary bleeding disorder. Patients require lifelong treatment and it is costly, but there is a lack of research in China on the treatment and burden for this group. Our aim was to review the actual treatment pattern of hemophilia B patients in China, and describe the financial burden and other disease burden from the patient's perspective.

Mapping the Peds QL 4.0 onto CHU-9D: a cross-sectional study in functional dyspepsia population from China.

Objective: The study aims to develop a mapping algorithm from the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4. 0 (Peds QL 4.0) onto Child Health Utility 9D (CHU-9D) based on the cross-sectional data of functional dyspepsia (FD) children and adolescents in China.

Association of pharmaceutical care barriers and role ambiguity and role conflict of clinical pharmacists.

This study aimed to understand current status of pharmaceutical care barriers and explore the impact of them on the role ambiguity and role conflict of clinical pharmacists in secondary and tertiary hospitals in mainland China. The Chinese version of Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity Scale was used to measure clinical pharmacists' role ambiguity and role conflict. A questionnaire for clinical pharmacists' pharmaceutical care barriers was established to determine whether clinical pharmacists encounter barriers.

Mapping health assessment questionnaire disability index onto EQ-5D-5L in China.

Objective: This research aimed to develop the more accurate mapping algorithms from health assessment questionnaire disability index (HAQ-DI) onto EQ-5D-5L based on Chinese Rheumatoid Arthritis patients.

Methods: The cross-sectional data of Chinese RA patients from 8 tertiary hospitals across four provincial capitals was used for constructing the mapping algorithms. Direct mapping using Ordinary least squares regression (OLS), the general linear regression model (GLM), MM-estimator model (MM), Tobit regression model (Tobit), Beta regression model (Beta) and the adjusted limited dependent variable mixture model (ALDVMM) and response mapping using Multivariate Ordered Probit regression model (MV-Probit) were carried out.

Measurement properties of the EQ-5D-5L in sub-health: evidence based on primary health care workers in China.

Background: Sub-health which is the state between health and disease is a major global public health challenge. As a reversible stage, sub-health can work as a effective tool for the early detection or prevention of chronic disease. The EQ-5D-5L (5L) is a widely used, generic preference-based instrument while its validity in measuring sub-health is not clear.

The influence of non-clinical pharmacists' understanding of and attitudes towards pharmaceutical care on their willingness to serve as clinical pharmacists in China.

Background: The shortage of clinical pharmacists is severe in China, and transferring non-clinical pharmacists into clinical pharmacists serves as a feasible solution to this problem. In China, a one-year training programme is available for non-clinical pharmacists, and those who have finished the programme are certificated as clinical pharmacists. However, not all non-clinical pharmacists are willing to serve as clinical pharmacists, and their willingness to serve as clinical pharmacists may be related to their attitudes towards pharmaceutical care.