Reliability and validity of the Thai "Global Person Generated Index", an individualised measure of quality of life

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 219-232

  Martin, Faith ^a   Rodham, Karen ^b   Camfield, Laura ^c   Ruta, Danny ^d  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d North of Tyne Commissioning Consortium   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global Person Generated Index; Global quality of life; Individualised quality of life measures; Patient Generated Index; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955173310     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-010-9106-6     Document Type: Article

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