The utility of a specific measure for heart transplant patients: Reliability and validity of the kansas city cardiomyopathy questionnaire

Transplantation

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 804-810

  Ortega, Teresa ^a   Díaz Molina, Beatriz ^a   Montoliu, Ma Angeles ^a   Ortega, Francisco ^a   Valdés, Covadonga ^a   Rebollo, Pablo ^b   Almenar, Maria ^c   Iscar, Marta ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^b BAP Health Outcomes Research   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Health Related Quality of Life; Heart transplant; Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALTH STATUS; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KANSAS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56049107066     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318183eda4     Document Type: Article

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