Health status assessment for the twenty-first century: Item response theory, item banking and computer adaptive testing

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 595-600

  Revicki, D A ^a   Cella, D F ^b  

^a UNITED BIOSOURCE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b RUSH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer adaptive testing; Health status assessment; HIV disease; Item banks; Item response theory models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WELLBEING;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEALTH STATUS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0030762107     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018420418455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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