Reliability, validity and responsiveness of the syncope functional status questionnaire

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1280-1285

  Van Dijk, Nynke ^a   Boer, Kimberly R ^a   Wieling, Wouter ^a   Linzer, Mark ^b   Sprangers, Mirjam A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Quality of life; Syncope; Validation study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SYNCOPE FUNCTIONAL STATUS QUESTIONNAIRE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNCOPE;

EID: 34547838450     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0266-5     Document Type: Article

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