Investigating the missing data mechanism in quality of life outcomes: A comparison of approaches

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fielding, Shona ^a   Fayers, Peter M ^a,b   Ramsay, Craig R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FOLLOW UP; HYPOTHESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; REMINDER SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMINDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 67651089498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-7-57     Document Type: Article

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