Response-shift bias: A challenge to the assessment of patients' quality of life in cancer clinical trials

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL.1, 1996, Pages 55-62

  Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WELLBEING;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0030001224     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-7372(96)90064-X     Document Type: Article

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