Consensus analysis: Reliability, validity, and informant accuracy in use of American and mandarin Chinese pain descriptors

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-300

  Moore, Rod ^b   Brødsgaard, Inger ^c   Miller, Marc L ^c   Mao, Tai Kum ^a   Dworkin, Samuel F ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0031462432     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02892294     Document Type: Review

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