Valuation and preliminary validation of the Greek 15D in a sample of patients with coronary artery disease

Value in Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 574-579

  Aletras, Vassilis H ^a,b   Kontodimopoulos, Nick ^b   Niakas, Dimitris A ^b   Vagia, Maria G ^b,c   Pelteki, Helen J ^b   Karatzoglou, Grammatiki I ^b,d   Sintonen, Harri ^e   Yfantopoulos, John N ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d General Hospital of Lamia   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g National Centre for Social Research   (Greece)

Author keywords

15D; Coronary artery disease; Quality of life; Validation; Valuation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIGESTION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EATING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GREECE; GREEK 15D SAMPLING; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PATIENT MOBILITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLEEP; SPEECH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CULTURE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GREECE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66249100211     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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