Psychometric properties of the disease-specific health-related quality of life instrument VascuQoL in a Swedish setting

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nordanstig, Joakim ^a   Karlsson, Jan ^a,b   Pettersson, Monica ^a   Wann Hansson, Christine ^c  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Intermittent claudication; Patient reported outcome measures; Peripheral arterial disease; Psychometric validation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MULTITRAIT MULTIMETHOD; PAIN; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL ASPECT; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VASCULAR QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84862189756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-45     Document Type: Article

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