Dangers in using translated medical questionnaires: The importance of conceptual equivalence across languages and cultures in patient-reported outcome measures

Chest

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1175-1177

  Breugelmans, Raoul ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH STATUS; LANGUAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SHORT SURVEY; THORAX; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY;

EID: 70350120596     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.09-1684     Document Type: Article

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