The VEINES-QOL/Sym questionnaire is a reliable and valid disease-specific quality of life measure for deep vein thrombosis in elderly patients

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2463-2471

  Mean M ^a   Limacher, A ^b   Kahn, S R ^c   Aujesky, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute deep vein thrombosis; Disease specific quality of life questionnaire; Elderly patients; Health related quality of life

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84912032857     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-014-0704-x     Document Type: Article

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