The Burden of Stroke Scale (BOSS) provided valid, reliable, and responsive score estimates of functioning and well-being during the first year of recovery from stroke

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1389-1398

  Doyle, Patrick J ^a,b   McNeil, Malcolm R ^a,b   Bost, James E ^c   Ross, Katherine B ^d   Wambaugh, Julie L ^a   Hula, William D ^a,b   Mikolic, Joseph M ^e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CARL T HAYDEN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Novum Pharmaceutical Research Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Functioning; Health related quality of life; Health status; Patient reported outcomes (PROs); Responsiveness; Stroke; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICS; STROKE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34648822300     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-007-9247-8     Document Type: Article

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