Which instrument is more suitable to assess health-related quality of life: Nottingham Health Profile or Short-Form-36?

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 156, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 149-157

  Jagsch, Reinhold ^a,c   Pils, Katharina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation   (Austria)

^c Universitätsstraße 7 NIG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Nottingham Health Profile; Old age; SF 36

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERONTOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOTTINGHAM HEALTH PROFILE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; SYMPTOM; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33645969272     PISSN: 00435341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10354-006-0266-9     Document Type: Article

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