Pre-transplant Quality of Life Does Not Predict Survival After Lung Transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 623-627

  Vermeulen, Karin M ^a   TenVergert, Elisabeth M ^a   Verschuuren, Erik A M ^a   Erasmus, Michiel E ^a   van der Bij, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEX OF WELL BEING; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOTTINGHAM HEALTH PROFILE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF RATING DEPRESSION SCALE ZUNG; SELF REPORT; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43949133030     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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