Reliability of Standard Health Assessment Instruments in a Large, Population-Based Cohort Study

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 525-532

  Smith, Tyler C ^a   Smith, Besa ^a   Jacobson, Isabel G ^a   Corbeil, Thomas E ^a   Ryan, Margaret A K ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Health Surveys; Military Medicine; Questionnaires; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SHORT FORM 36; VALIDATION PROCESS; VETERAN;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 34250651233     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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