Generic and disease-specific measures of quality of life in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-333

  Bhattacharya, Suvosree ^a   Vogel, Asmus ^a   Hansen, Marie Louise H ^a   Waldorff, Frans B ^a,b   Waldemar, Gunhild ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Disease specific quality of life; Generic quality of life; Quality of life, dementia

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROQOL 5D; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; COHORT STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77957324297     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320588     Document Type: Article

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