Quality of life evaluation in wounds: Validation of the Freiburg Life Quality Assessment-wound module, a disease-specific instrument

International Wound Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 493-501

  Augustin, Matthias ^a   Herberger, Katharina ^a   Rustenbach, Stephan J ^a   Zschocke, Ina ^a   Blome, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic wounds; Health related quality of life; Questionnaire; Skin diseases; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FREIBURG LIFE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KERATINOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SKIN DISEASE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ULCER; VALIDATION STUDY; WOUND;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; LEG ULCER; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78649652821     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2010.00732.x     Document Type: Article

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