Hemorrhoidal disease symptom score and short health scaleHD: New tools to evaluate symptoms and health-related quality of life in hemorrhoidal disease

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 333-342

  Rørvik, Håvard D ^a   Styr, Karl ^a   Ilum, Lars ^a   McKinstry, Grant L ^a   Dragesund, Tove ^c   Campos, André H ^a   Brandstrup, Birgitte ^a,b   Olaison, Gunnar ^a,b  

^a HOLBÆK HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Hemorrhoids; Measurement properties; Patient reported outcomes; Symptom score; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDAL DISEASE SYMPTOM SCORE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT WORRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SHORT HEALTH SCALE; SYMPTOM; VALIDITY; WELLBEING; ANAL CANAL; DENMARK; DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

ANAL CANAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85061188808     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000001234     Document Type: Article

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