Validation of a reliable instrument (QUOTE-IBD) for assessing the quality of health care in Greek patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Digestion

Volumn 68, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 153-160

  Pallis, Athanasios G ^a   Vlachonikolis, Ioannis G ^b   Mouzas, Ioannis A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; GR QUOTE IBD; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Quality of care; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0346727158     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075524     Document Type: Article

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