Diseases / conditions / health problems studied

Drug evaluations:

A gastro-intestinal disorder (three drugs)
Breast cancer (tamoxifen vs. toremifen)
Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD)
Depression (fluoxetine vs. moclobemide, fluoxetine vs. dothiepine)
Drug eluting stents vs. bare metal stents
Early rheumatoid arthritis (single drug treatment vs. 4-drug combination)
Erectial dysfunction
Hormone replacement therapy in healthy postmenopausal women
MS disease (interferon vs. not)
Mycosis in mouth
Osteoporosis (alendronate)
Parkinson’s disease
Psoriasis
Schizophrenia
Restenosis prevention after PTCA
Seasonal affective disorder (fluoxetine vs. moclobemide)

Surgery:

Accident-caused infuries in wrist, finger, elbow, clavicle and Achilles tendon
Acromioplasty
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (Harrington instrumentation)
Anterior cervical decompression
Atrial correction of the transposition of the great arteries
Bladder cancer
Blood vessel surgery
Brain tumor
Breast cancer and reconstruction
Breast reduction
Cataract
Cervical and lumbar patients with spinal nerve root compression
Cholelithiasis
Cochlear implant
Coronary artery disease (CABG, re-CABG, PTCA, conservative treatment).
Epicondylitis (Topaz microtenotomy in lateral...)
Epilepsy (surgery vs. no surgery).
Esophageal cancer (surgery vs. palliative)
Face injuries (mandible, zygoma, orbit)Knee and hip replacements
Gastrectomy for gastric carcinoma
Gastric bypass surgery
Gastrointestinal surgery
Hallux valgus (surgery vs. orthosis vs. watchful waiting)
Hernia
Herniated lumbar disc (surgery vs. conservative treatment)
Hip fracture
Hysterectomy
Incontinence (surgery vs. physiotherapy)
Intermittent claudication
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Liver transplantation
Lumbar spinal stenosis (surgery vs. conservative treatment)
Lung cancer
Microdiscectomy for lumbar disc herniation
Neurosurgery (several diagnoses)
Obesity (sleeve vs. bypass)
Pancreatic resections
Pneumonectomy
Pituitary adenoma
Primary brain tumor surgery
Prostata hyperplasia
Prostate cancer
Renal cancer
Renal transplantation
Macroreplantation of lower limb
Ruptured cerebral aneurysm
Severe obesity
Silicon breast implants
Snoring
Varicose veins
Vecchietti procedure
Venous leg ulcers (surgery vs. compression)

Rehabilitation:

Cognitive training (through a website)
Coronary artery disease (CAD) patients (rehabilitation)
Developmental language disorder
Employed people with reduced ability to work (vocationally oriented medical rehabilitation)
Geriatric rehabilitation (n=741, aged 65+)
Hip fracture (three approaches to rehabilitation)
Holistic geriatric assessment, treatment and rehabilitation (n=1500, aged 75+)
Inspiration activity of the elderly
Lumbar disc herniation (muscle exercise program after surgery)
MS patients (inpatient rehabilitation)
Muscular strength training of the elderly
Orthopaedic patients (rehabilitation)
Peripheral artery disease (physical rehabilitation)
Physiotherapy
Primary total knee arthoroplasty (multidisciplinary rehabilitation)
Rehabilitation councelling of the elderly
Resistance training
Speech rehabilitation
Stroke (treatment, intensive vs. conventional rehabilitation).
Sub-acute low back pain (early activation and rehabilitation)
Visual impairment (rehabilitation)

Other conditions/treatments

Acoustic neurinoma
Acromegaly
Acute low back pain
ADHD
Alcohol consumption
Alexithymia
Alzheiner's disease
Anaemic patients with solid and haematological tumours
Aneurysma (celebral haemorrhage)
Aphasia
Arteriosclerotic disease (a multi-component intervention to prevent complications)
Asthma (intensive vs. conventional patient education and supervision for self-management)
Atopic eczema
Atrial fibrillation
Back pain in pregnant women (back supporting vest vs. conventional approach to treating back pain)
Basedow’s disease
Bipolar affective disorder
Burn injury
Cancer of thyroid gland
Cancer of urinary bladder
Chronic non-malignant pain (medical management)
Diabetes (gestational)
Diabetes (prevention of type 2; type 1 and 2 patients with different complications)
Diastrophic dysplasia
Dizziness with migraine as an etiological factor
Drug abuse and addiction (treatment)
Duchenne-Erb paresis
Eating disorders
Effects of smoking
Epidemic nephropathy
Esophagus atresia
ESRD and dialysis
Fabry’s disease
FH
Fibromyalgia
Forearm fracture
Glaucoma
Gonarthritis
Hearing problems
HIV/AIDS
Human papilloma virus (HPV)
Hypertension
Hyperthyreosis
Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis)
“Intelligent bracelet” for dementing elderly
Irritable bowel syndrome
Kallmann's syndrome
Malnutrition
Mayer Rokitansky Küster Hauser Syndrome (vaginal aplasia)
Melanoma
Metabolic syndrome
Multiple myeloma
Myocardial infarction
Nephrolith
Non-specific back pain
Oral health
Osteoarthritis
Pancreatic cancer (IMRI-guided neurolytic celiac plexus block in pancreatic cancer pain)
Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency
Patients coming to angiography
Preterm birth (effect on HRQoL in adulthood)
Prostate cancer (screening and treatment)
Prostatic hyperplasia
Psychiatric disorders (major depressive disorder, dysthymia, alcohol dependence, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social phobia)
Psychosis
Rhinoconjunctivitis
Renal cancer
Sciatica
Severe chronic pain (spinal cord stimulator)
Severe obesity (combined VLCD and behaviour modification)
Sleep apnea
Sparm of celebral arteries
Spinal cord injury
Teleultrasound examination
Tinnitus
Trigeminus neuralgia
Weaning from smoking

Other projects:

The Finnish National Health Survey 1995/96
Health2000 survey in Finland (a random sample of 6329 of adult population aged 30+)
The Danish National Health Survey 2000.
Experiment on feasibility and usefulness of measuring HRQoL of patients before and after treatment routinely in the hospitals of Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (n≈12000, in 10 specialties, over 30 diagnoses)
Experiment on including the 15D as a standard part of anamnesis in electronic medical records (Turku University Hospital)
DEBATE-study (Drugs and Evidence-Based Medicine in the Elderly) (n=400, aged 75+ with cardiovascular diseases)
Elderly in Helsinki, Finland vs. in Tallinn, Estonia
DELI-study (elderly inpatients with delirium, n=174)
BIFIDO-study (aged in old people's homes and nursing homes, n=209)
The process of frailty and disability in older women (The Finnish Twin Study on Ageing, FITSA).
HRQoL of young military conscripts (15D vs. Rand-36)
Prevention of gestational diabetes
HRQoL of long-term care patients