Clustering effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease specific quality of life in hospitalized patients

Respirology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-343

  Lowe, Adrian ^b   Campbell, Donald ^b   Walker, Pieter ^a   Farish, Stephen ^b   Jackson, Bruce ^b   Dharmage, Shyamali ^b  

^a Intgd Perf Improvement Consultancy   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Cluster randomization; Intracluster correlation; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE SIZE; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0141513802     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1843.2003.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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