Reliability of Spanish translations of select urological quality of life instruments

Journal of Urology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 493-496

  Krongrad, Arnon ^a,b   Perczekd, Ruben E ^a   Burke, Michael A ^a   Granville, Lisa J ^a   Lai, Hong ^a   Lai, Shenghan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanic Americans; Prostate; Prostatic hypertrophy; Prostatic neoplasms; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 0030799980     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)64512-9     Document Type: Article

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