Response shift, recall bias and their effect on measuring change in health-related quality of life amongst older hospital patients

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  McPhail, Steven ^a,b,c   Haines, Terry ^c,d,e  

^a Centre for Functioning and Health Research   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Kingston Centre   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL BIAS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL;

AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 77954338955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-65     Document Type: Article

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