The psychological context of quality of life: A psychometric analysis of a novel idiographic measure of bladder cancer patients' personal goals and concerns prior to surgery

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Morganstern, Bradley A ^a   Bochner, Bernard ^b   Dalbagni, Guido ^b   Shabsigh, Ahmad ^c   Rapkin, Bruce ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; AGE; BLADDER TUMOR; INTERVIEW; MARRIAGE; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79851515523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-9-10     Document Type: Article

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