Quantitative assessment of changes in patients' constructs of quality of life: An application of multilevel models

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1177-1185

  Lowy, Adam ^a   Bernhard, Jürg ^b  

^a SIAK Coordinating Center   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Inst for Appl Cancer Res   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multilevel models; Quality of life (QL); Response shift

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CANCER PATIENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 4344605982     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:QURE.0000037510.17893.d2     Document Type: Review

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