Validation of a voice prosthesis questionnaire to assess valved speech and its related issues in patients following total laryngectomy

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 404-410

  Kazi, R ^a,b   Singh, A ^a   De Cordova, J ^a   Al Mutairy, A ^a   Clarke, P ^a   Nutting, C ^a   Rhys Evans, P ^a   Harrington, K ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LARYNGECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH THERAPY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOICE PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33749426088     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4486.2006.01289.x     Document Type: Article

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