Evaluating linguistic equivalence of patient-reported outcomes in a cancer clinical trial

Clinical Trials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 280-290

  Hahn, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Bode, Rita K ^b   Du, Hongyan ^a   Cella, David ^a,b  

^a Research and Education   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CYTARABINE; IMATINIB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 33746253187     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1740774506cn148oa     Document Type: Article

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