Generic versus disease-specific health status measures: An example using coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure patients

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 216-243

  Wolinsky, Fredric D ^a,d   Wyrwich, Kathleen W ^a   Nienaber, Nancy A ^b   Tierney, William M ^c  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Regenstrief Institute for Health Care

^c Veterans Administration   (United States)

^d SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; PATIENT CODING; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031971531     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016327879802100205     Document Type: Article

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