Psychometric analysis of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy- General (FACT-G) scale in a rural sample

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2446-2452

  Winstead Fry, Patricia ^a   Schultz, Alyce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Mixed diagnoses; Quality of life; Rural sample

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RURAL AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; VERMONT;

EID: 0030906404     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970615)79:12<2446::AID-CNCR23>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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