The development of a French version of a questionnaire on the quality of life in cancerology (Functional Living Index - Cancer: FLIC);Adaptation en francais d'un autoquestionnaire de qualite de vie en cancerologie (FLIC)

Bulletin du Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 180-186

  Mercier, Mariette ^a,c   Bonneterre, Jacques ^a   Schraub, Simon ^b   Lecomte, Sylvie ^b   Hasnaoui, Abdelkader E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b CENTRE OSCAR LAMBRET   (France)

^c Glaxo Laboratories   (France)

Author keywords

Cancers; Quality of life; Questionnaire Functional Living Index Cancer (FLIC) French; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ONCOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0031891397     PISSN: 00074551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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