Clinical validity of a disease-specific health status questionnaire: The Peripheral Artery Questionnaire

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 371-377

  Hoeks, Sanne E ^a   Smolderen, Kim G ^b   Scholte op Reimer, Wilma J M ^c   Verhagen, Hence J M ^d   Spertus, John A ^d   Poldermans, Don ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTERY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL ARTERY QUESTIONNAIRE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVOR; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WALKING;

AGED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WALKING;

EID: 59649124035     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.08.089     Document Type: Article

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