Measurement of reliability and validity of clinical instruments;Medición de confiabilidad y validez en instrumentos clínicos

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 466-473

  Bangdiwala, Shrikant I ^a   Muñoz N, Sergio R ^b,c  

^a Facultad de Salud Pública

^b Facultad de Medicina   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Biometry; Methods; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHOLESTEROL; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 3242749616     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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