'Equivalence' and the translation and adaptation of health-related quality of life questionnaires

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 237-247

  Herdman, M ^a   Fox Rushby, J ^b   Badia, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Equivalence; Health related Quality of life; Questionnaires; Translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; ADOPTION; CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; UNIVERSALISM;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; GUIDELINES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0030744340     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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