Each measure of patient-reported change provides useful information and is susceptible to bias: The need to combine methods to assess their relative validity

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1623-1625

  Nieuwkerk, Pythia T ^a   Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTHRITIS; CALIBRATION; DETERIORATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; VALIDITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73449142448     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.25030     Document Type: Editorial

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