Interday reliability of function assessment for a health status measure: The quality of well-being scale

Medical Care

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1989, Pages 1076-1083

  Anderson, John P ^a   Kaplan, Robert M ^a   Berry, Charles C ^a   Bush, James W ^a   Rumbaut, Ruben G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BURN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFUGEE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BURNS; CALIFORNIA; DIABETES MELLITUS, NON-INSULIN-DEPENDENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMAN; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFUGEES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0024759634     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-198911000-00008     Document Type: Article

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