Quality of life in asthmatic outpatients

Journal of Asthma

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-32

  Lobo, Filipa Almada ^a   Almada Lobo, Bernardo ^b  

^a Matosinhos Health Centre   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Asthma; Asthma control; Graffar score; Health related quality of life; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PREDICTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 38949186105     PISSN: 02770903     EISSN: 15324303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02770900701815495     Document Type: Article

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