Quality of life after spinal cord injury: The comparison of the SF-36 health survey and its spinal cord injury-modified version in assessing the health status of people with spinal cord injury

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 175-179

  Unalan, Halil ^a   Celik, Berna ^b,c   Sahin, Aynur ^b   Caglar, Nil ^b   Esen, Selma ^a   Karamehmetoglu, Safak S ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c Mesa Maslak Evleri   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Health status; SF 36; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WALKING;

EID: 34548134799     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNQ.0b013e318063eb72     Document Type: Article

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