Quality of life in infants and children with atopic dermatitis: Addressing issues of differential item functioning across countries in multinational clinical trials

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  McKenna, Stephen P ^a,b   Doward, Lynda C ^b   Meads, David M ^b   Tennant, Alan ^c   Lawton, Gemma ^c   Grueger, Jens ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b GALEN RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIMECROLIMUS; PLACEBO; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD IMPACT OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FRANCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; EUROPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34848836627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-5-45     Document Type: Article

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