Individual quality of life: Adaptive conjoint analysis as an alternative for direct weighting?

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 641-649

  Stiggelbout, A M ^a   De Vogel Voogt, E ^a   Noordijk, E M ^a   Vliet Vlieland, T P M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conjoint analysis; Direct weighting; Individual quality of life; Patients; SEIQoL

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONJOINT ANALYSIS; ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTENT VALIDITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 43049156528     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-008-9325-6     Document Type: Article

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