Quality of life in patients with spinal cord injury-basic issues, assessment, and recommendations

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 135-149

  Wood Dauphinée, Sharon ^a   Exner, G ^b   Bostanci, S ^c   Glass, C ^c   Jochheim, K A ^c   Kluger, P ^c   Koller, M ^c   Krishnan, K R ^c   Post, M W M ^c   Ragnarsson, K T ^c   Rommel, T ^c   Zitnay, G ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BG Trauma Hospital Hamburg   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Consensus conference; Quality of life; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANXIETY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POPULATION; POSTTRAUMATIC PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WELLBEING; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DISABLED PERSON; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; SATISFACTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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