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Dalhousie dyspnea scales: construct and content validity of pictorial scales for measuring dyspnea

BACKGROUND: Because there are no child-friendly, validated, self-report measures of dyspnea or breathlessness, we developed, and provided initial validation, of three, 7-item, pictorial scales depicting three sub-constructs of dyspnea: throat closing, chest tightness, and effort. METHODS: We develop...

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Autores principales: McGrath, Patrick J, Pianosi, Paul T, Unruh, Anita M, Buckley, Chloe P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1208906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16131402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-5-33