Assessment of health-related quality of life in arthritis: Conceptualization and development of five item banks using item response theory

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kopec, Jacek A ^a,b   Sayre, Eric C ^b,c   Davis, Aileen M ^d   Badley, Elizabeth M ^e   Abrahamowicz, Michal ^f   Sherlock, Lesley ^b   Ivan Williams, Jack ^g   Anis, Aslam H ^a,b   Esdaile, John M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CENTRE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHILD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33747584619     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-33     Document Type: Article

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