A new self-administered questionnaire to determine patient experience with voice prostheses (blom-singer valves)

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 253-258

  Kazi, R ^a   Singh, A ^a   De Cordova, J ^a   Clarke, P ^a   Harrington, K ^a   Rhys Evans, P ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Humidification; Insertion; Leakage; Quality of life; Valve change; Voice prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; INTERVIEW; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MONITORING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PROSTHESIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; SPEECH; SPEECH REHABILITATION; VOICE;

AGED; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 30444442651     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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