Establishing the minimal number of items for a responsive, valid, health-related quality of life instrument

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 571-579

  Moran, Lea Anne ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^b   Norman, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Obstructive lung diseases; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of results; Respiratory therapy; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

EID: 0035001277     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(00)00342-5     Document Type: Article

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