A pilot quality-of-life instrument for pruritus

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-244

  Desai, Nisha S ^a   Poindexter, Gabriele B ^b   Monthrope, Yvette Miller ^c   Bendeck, Sandra E ^d   Swerlick, Robert A ^e,f   Chen, Suephy C ^e,f  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 47049109022     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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