Listen to their answers! Response behaviour in the measurement of physical and role functioning

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 549-558

  Westerman, Marjan J ^a,b   Hak, Tony ^c   Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^d   Groen, Harry J M ^e   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a   The, Anne Mei ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER CORE QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TERMINALLY ILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43049181893     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-008-9333-6     Document Type: Article

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