Translation of the 5D Itching Scale from English to Malay, and Its Validation among Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in Malaysia

IntroductionSeveral tools have been developed to assess the severity of pruritus. In Malaysia, no tool has been validated to assess pruritus in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Therefore, the aim of our study was to validate the Malay 5D itching scale (M5D-IS) among patients with CKD in M...

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Main Authors: Inayat Ur Rehman, David Bin-Chia Wu, Siew Mei Pauline Lai, Uma Devi Palanisamy, Soo Kun Lim, Tahir Mehmood Khan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2017.00189/full