Measuring health-related quality of life in leukemia: The functional assessment of cancer therapy - Leukemia (FACT-Leu) questionnaire

Value in Health

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1051-1058

  Cella, David ^a   Jensen, Sally E ^a   Webster, Kimberly ^a   Hongyan, Du ^b   Lai, Jin Shei ^a   Rosen, Steven ^a   Tallman, Martin S ^c   Yount, Susan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute leukemia; chronic leukemia; health related quality of life; patient reported outcomes

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LEUKEMIA; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY LEUKEMIA QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84871187320     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2012.08.2210     Document Type: Article

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