The role of health care providers and significant others in evaluating the quality of life of patients with chronic disease

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1130-1143

  Sneeuw, Kommer C A ^a   Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^b   Aaronson, Neil K ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agreement; Assessment; Proxy; Quality of life; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CUSTODY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY;

CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPOUSES;

EID: 0036868709     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(02)00479-1     Document Type: Article

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