A Predictive Model for Fatigue and Its Etiologic Associations in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-233

  Newton, Julia L ^a,b   Pairman, Jessie ^b   Sutcliffe, Kathryn ^b   Wilton, Katharine ^b   Jones, David E J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMNOLENCE;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FATIGUE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 38649141812     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2007.11.021     Document Type: Article

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