Brief comprehensive quality of life assessment after stroke: The assessment of quality of life instrument in the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS)

Stroke

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2888-2894

  Sturm, Jonathan W ^a   Osborne, Richard H ^b,c   Dewey, Helen M ^a,c   Donnan, Geoffrey A ^a,c   Macdonell, Richard A L ^a,c   Thrift, Amanda G ^a,c,d  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b Melbourne School of Population Health   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disorders; Health status; Outcome assessment; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; STROKE; SYNDROME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036905211     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000040407.44712.C7     Document Type: Article

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