Measuring disease-specific quality of life in rare populations: A practical approach to cross-cultural translation

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Price, Victoria E ^a   Klaassen, Robert J ^b   Bolton Maggs, Paula H B ^c   Grainger, John D ^d   Curtis, Christine ^e   Wakefield, Cindy ^f   Dufort, Gustavo ^g   Riedlinger, Arne ^h   Soltner, Christophe ⁱ   Blanchette, Victor S ^e,f   Young, Nancy L ^e,j  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^g Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell   (Uruguay)

^h CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁱ ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^j LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX RATIO; TELECONFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; URUGUAY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADULT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RARE DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CULTURE; FRANCE; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RARE DISEASES; TRANSLATING; TRANSLATIONS; URUGUAY;

EID: 71149086715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-7-92     Document Type: Article

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