The contribution of personal rating to the clinimetric functioning of a generic quality of life instrument

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1419-1422

  Mozes, Benjamin ^a   Shabtai, Esther ^b  

^a GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dialysis; Discrimination; Personal rating; Prediction; Quality of life; Responsiveness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE;

FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0030445962     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(96)00273-9     Document Type: Article

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