Population norms and meaningful differences for the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) measure

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 136-142

  Hawthorne, Graeme ^a   Osborne, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36;

EID: 17844396242     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.tb00063.x     Document Type: Article

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