Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 61, Issue 10 , Pages 1061-1066 , October 2008

Transculturally adapted Spanish SRI questionnaire for home mechanically ventilated patients was viable, valid, and reliable

  • Jose Luis López-Campos

      Affiliations

    • Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Avda. Manuel Siurot, s/n, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34-620720067; fax: +34-955013168.
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  • Inmaculada Failde

      Affiliations

    • Área de Salud Pública y Medicina Preventiva, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
    • ,
  • Juan F. Masa

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Neumología, Hospital San Pedro Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain
    • ,
  • Jose M. Benítez-Moya

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain
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  • Emilia Barrot

      Affiliations

    • Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Avda. Manuel Siurot, s/n, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
    • ,
  • Ruth Ayerbe

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva, Spain
    • ,
  • Antonio León-Jiménez

      Affiliations

    • Sección de Neumología y Alergia, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain
    • ,
  • Wolfram Windisch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany

,Accepted 14 September 2007.

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 A free sample of the SRI questionnaire together with the instructions for recoding and interpreting it can be obtained from the corresponding author of this manuscript on request.

PII: S0895-4356(07)00354-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.09.002

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 61, Issue 10 , Pages 1061-1066 , October 2008

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