Validation of the Care-Related Quality of Life Instrument in different study settings: findings from The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey Minimum DataSet (TOPICS-MDS)

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1281-1293

  Lutomski, J E ^a,b   van Exel, N J A ^c   Kempen, G I J M ^d   Moll van Charante, E P ^e   den Elzen, W P J ^f   Jansen, A P D ^g   Krabbe, P F M ^h   Steunenberg, B ⁱ   Steyerberg, E W ^j   Olde Rikkert, M G M ^a   Melis, R J F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^j ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Caregivers; CarerQol 7D; Geriatric health services; Quality of life; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAREGIVER; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84938061696     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-014-0841-2     Document Type: Article

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