Identifying dyspepsia in the Greek population: Translation and validation of a questionnaire

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Anastasiou, Foteini ^a   Antonakis, Nikos ^b   Chaireti, Georgia ^c   Theodorakis, Pavlos N ^a   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Health Centre of Anogia   (Greece)

^c Health Centre of Agia Barbara   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DYSPEPSIA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GREECE; INSTRUMENT; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTAL MAIL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 33645450392     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-56     Document Type: Article

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