Development and Validation of the Bladder Cancer Index: A Comprehensive, Disease Specific Measure of Health Related Quality of Life in Patients With Localized Bladder Cancer

Journal of Urology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1764-1770

  Gilbert, Scott M ^a   Dunn, Rodney L ^a   Hollenbeck, Brent K ^a   Montie, James E ^a   Lee, Cheryl T ^a   Wood, David P ^a   Wei, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bladder neoplasms; quality of life; questionnaires; survivors; urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CANCER INDEX; CANCER PATIENT; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRITERION VALIDITY; CYSTOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEAL CONDUIT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL HEALTH; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTECTOMY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ENDOSCOPY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINARY DIVERSION;

EID: 77950629443     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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