Development of a smiling touchscreen multimedia program for HRQoL assessment in subjects with varying levels of literacy

Value in Health

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 312-319

  Thumboo, Julian ^a,b   Wee, Hwee Lin ^a,b   Cheung, Yin Bun ^c   Machin, David ^c   Luo, Nan ^b   Fong, Kok Yong ^a,b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computers; Data collection; Health surveys; Literacy; Quality of life; Rheumatology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; READING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 33748360091     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2006.00120.x     Document Type: Article

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