Recall bias did not affect perceived magnitude of change in health-related functional status

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 503-511

  Middel, Berrie ^a   Goudriaan, Heike ^b   de Greef, Mathieu ^a   Stewart, Roy ^a   van Sonderen, Eric ^a   Bouma, J ^a   de Jongste, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinically relevant change; Effect size; Health status indicators; Heart failure; Present state bias; Prospective change; Recall bias; Responsiveness; Retrospective change

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646037994     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.08.018     Document Type: Article

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