Do not throw out the baby with the bath water: Build on current approaches to realize conceptual clarity. Response to Ubel, Peeters, and Smith

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 477-479

  Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^a   Schwartz, Carolyn E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DeltaQuest Foundation Inc   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NOTE; PAIN; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; PAIN; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 77956392365     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-010-9611-y     Document Type: Note

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