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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Rice AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4934500 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rice Amanda D AD Wakefield Leslie B LB Patterson Kimberley K D'Avy Reed Evette E Wurn Belinda F BF Klingenberg Bernhard B King Iii C Richard CR Wurn Lawrence J LJ
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 20140307 1
A validated questionnaire to assess the impact of small bowel obstructions (SBO) on patients' quality of life was developed and validated. The questionnaire included measurements for the impact on the patients' quality of life in respect to diet, pain, gastrointestinal symptoms and daily life. The questionnaire was validated using 149 normal subjects. Chronbach alpha was 0.86. Test retest reliability was evaluated with 72 normal subjects, the correlation coefficient was 0.93. Discriminate validi ...[more]