Spanish validation of the "kidney transplant questionnaire": A useful instrument for assessing health related quality of life in kidney transplant patients

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Rebollo, Pablo ^a   Ortega, Fracisco ^a,b   Ortega, Teresa ^b   Valdés, Covadonga ^b   García Mendoza, Mónica ^a   Gómez, Ernesto ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^b Inst Reina Sofia Nephrol Research   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION PROCESS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; HEALTH STATUS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 4243115089     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-1-56     Document Type: Article

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