Ready, set, stop - Reflections on assessing quality of life and the WHOQOL-100 (U.S. version)

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-17

  Williams, J Ivan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033969503     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(99)00122-5     Document Type: Note

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