The functional living index-cancer: Estimating its reliability based on clinical trial data

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 103-109

  Laenen, Annouschka ^a   Alonso, Ariel ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; FLIC; Longitudinal data; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MEGESTROL ACETATE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; VOROZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BREAST TUMOR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BELGIUM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEGESTROL ACETATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 75149187386     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-009-9568-x     Document Type: Article

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