Testing the measurement equivalence of paper and touch-screen versions of the EQ-5D visual analog scale (EQ VAS)

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1117-1120

  Ramachandran, Sulabha ^a   Lundy, J Jason ^b   Coons, Stephen Joel ^b  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

EQ VAS; EQ 5D; Measurement equivalence; Reliability; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAPER; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 52449085740     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-008-9384-8     Document Type: Article

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