tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of the Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ) in primary care"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Validation of the Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ) in primary care | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Validation of the Clinical COPD Questionnaire CCQ in primary care Bjorn Stăllberg1 Mika Nokela2 3 Per-Olof Ehrs4 Paul Hjemdal3 and Eva Wikstrom Jonsson 2 3 Address Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences Section of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden 2Centre for Allergy Research Karolinska Institutet SE-171 77 Stockholm Sweden 3Department of Medicine Clinical Pharmacology Unit Karolinska University Hospital Solna SE-171 76 Stockholm Sweden and 4Lung and Allergy Research Division of Physiology National Institute of Environmental Medicine Karolinska Institutet SE-171 77 Stockholm Sweden Email Bjorn Stăllberg - Mika Nokela - Per-Olof Ehrs - poehrs@ Paul Hjemdal - Eva Wikstrom Jonsson - Corresponding author Published 25 March 2009 Received 17 May 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 26 doi 1477-7525-7-26 Accepted 25 March 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 26 2009 Stallberg et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Patient centred outcomes such as health status are important in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD . Extensive questionnaires on health status have good measurement properties but are not suitable for use in primary care. The newly developed short Clinical COPD Questionnaire CCQ was therefore validated against the St George s Respiratory Questionnaire SGRQ . Methods 1 1 1 patients diagnosed by general practitioners as having COPD completed the questionnaires twice 2-3 months apart without systematic changes in .