Internal consistency reliability is a poor predictor of responsiveness

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Puhan, Milo A ^a   Bryant, Dianne ^b   Guyatt, Gordon H ^b   Heels Ansdell, Diane ^b   Schünemann, Holger J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; KNEE INJURY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27344435435     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-3-33     Document Type: Article

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