The AMC Linear Disability Score (ALDS): A cross-sectional study with a new generic instrument to measure disability applied to patients with peripheral arterial disease

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 88-

  Met, Rosemarie ^a   Reekers, Jim A ^a   Koelemay, Mark J W ^a   Legemate, Dink A ^a   de Haan, Rob J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER LINEAR DISABILITY SCORE; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70449627990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-7-88     Document Type: Article

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