McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire: Reliability and validity of the Persian version in Iranian patients with advanced cancer

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 621-626

  Shahidi, Javad ^a,b,e   Khodabakhshi, Reza ^a   Gohari, Mahmood Reza ^c   Yahyazadeh, Hossein ^a   Shahidi, Nafiseh ^d  

^a Fayazbakhsh Hospital   (Iran)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 43049110618     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2007.0173     Document Type: Article

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