A short version of a HRQoL questionnaire for Italian and Japanese patients with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 718-723

  Montali, Lorenzo ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^b   Riva, Paolo ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^c   Cocchi, Claudio ^d   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^e   Miglioretti, Massimo ^a   Takikawa, Hajime ^b   Vecchio, Luca ^a   Frigerio, Alessandra ^a   Bianchi, Ilaria ^d,f   Jorgensen, Roberta ^g   Lindor, Keith D ^g   Podda, Mauro ^d,f   Invernizzi, Pietro ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor structure; PBC 40; Principal component analysis; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; JAPAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77956288031     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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