Standard error of measurement of 5 health utility indexes across the range of health for use in estimating reliability and responsiveness

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 260-269

  Palta, Mari ^a   Chen, Han Yang ^b   Kaplan, Robert M ^c   Feeny, David ^d   Cherepanov, Dasha ^c   Fryback, Dennis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Center for Urban Population Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

HRQoL; IRT; Measurement error; Reliability; Responsiveness; Testretest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79953869902     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X10380925     Document Type: Article

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