Validation of a patient-administered questionnaire to measure the activity impairment experienced by women with uncomplicated urinary tract infection: The Activity Impairment Assessment (AIA)

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wild, Diane J ^a   Clayson, Darren J ^a   Keating, Karen ^b   Gondek, Kathleen ^b  

^a ICON PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 27444433451     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-3-42     Document Type: Article

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