A review of health-related quality of life in adult traumatic brain injury survivors in the context of combat veterans

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 59-71

  Daggett, Virginia ^a   Bakas, Tamilyn ^b   Habermann, Barbara ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN INJURY; CONVALESCENCE; COST OF ILLNESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FAMILY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; VETERAN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN INJURIES; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VETERANS;

EID: 66149085300     PISSN: 08880395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JNN.0b013e31819a7133     Document Type: Review

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