The Portuguese version, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of specific quality-of-life questionnaire - AQUAREL - for pacemaker patients;Versão em Português, adaptação transcultural e validação de questionário para avaliação da qualidade de vida para pacientes portadores de marcapasso: AQUAREL

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-83

  Oliveira, Bruna Guimarães ^b   Melendez, Jorge Gustavo Velasquez ^b   Ciconelli, Rozana Mesquita ^b   Rincón, Leonor Garcia ^b   Torres, Ana Amélia Soares ^b   De Sousa, Lidiane Aparecida Pereira ^b   Ribeiro, Antônio Luiz Pinho ^a  

^a NONE   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cross cultural adaptation; Pacemaker; Quality of life; Translation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING;

EID: 33748413308     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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