Reliability & validity of the Malayalam functional assessment of cancer therapy for head & neck cancer

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-55

  Pandey, Manoj ^a   Thomas, Bejoy Cherian ^a   Ramdas, Kunnambath ^a   Eremenco, Sonya ^b   Nair, Madhvan K ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Ctr on Outcomes Research/Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Cronbach's ; Head and neck cancer; Psycho oncology; Psychometry; Quality of life; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 4344666022     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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