Quality of life of people with venous leg ulcers: A comparison of the discriminative and responsive characteristics of two generic and a disease specific instruments

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1705-1718

  Iglesias, Cynthia P ^a,b   Birks, Yvonne ^a   Nelson, Elizabeth A ^a   Scanlon, Elizabeth ^a   Cullum, Nicky A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Seebohn Rowntree Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EQ 5D; Health related quality of life; Hyland; SF 12; Venous leg ulcers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LEG ULCER; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PAIN; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TIME FACTORS; VARICOSE ULCER;

EID: 22144485993     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-005-2751-9     Document Type: Article

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