The "wound-QoL": A short questionnaire measuring quality of life in patients with chronic wounds based on three established disease-specific instruments

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 504-514

  Blome, Christine ^a   Baade, Katrin ^a   Sebastian Debus, Eike ^a   Price, Patricia ^b   Augustin, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIFF WOUND IMPACT SCHEDULE SCORE; CHRONIC WOUND; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREIBURG LIFE QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR WOUNDS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LEG ULCER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; WURZBURG WOUND SCORE; CHRONIC DISEASE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; WOUND HEALING;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84901829618     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/wrr.12193     Document Type: Article

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