Proxy reliability: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures for people with disability

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 609-619

  Andresen, Elena M ^a   Vahle, Victoria J ^a   Lollar, Donald ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Disabled persons; Health status indicators; Proxy; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSING HOME; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0035681276     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013187903591     Document Type: Article

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