Validity of St. George's respiratory questionnaire for greek patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 772-788

  Katsoulas, Theodoros A ^a   Skordilis, Emmanouil K ^a   Myrianthefs, Pavlos ^a   Fildisis, George ^a   Theodosopoulou, Eleni ^a   Baltopoulos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GREECE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 77956215146     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 00315125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.110.3.772-788     Document Type: Article

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