Comparing different revisions of the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire to reduce the ceiling effect and improve score distribution: Data from a multi-center European cohort study of children with JIA

Pediatric Rheumatology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Groen, W ^a   Unal E ^b   Norgaard M ^c   Maillard, S ^d   Scott, J ^e   Berggren, K ^f   Sandstedt, E ^g   Stavrakidou, M ^h   van der Net, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h Ippokration Hospital Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 77952186621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15460096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-8-16     Document Type: Article

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