Identifying type and determinants of missing items in quality of life questionnaires: Application to the SF-36 French version of the 2003 Decennial Health Survey

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Peyre, Hugo ^a,b   Coste, Joël ^a,b   Leplège, Alain ^b,c  

^a Institut Cochin   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; AGE; FRANCE; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950466131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-16     Document Type: Article

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