Trends in translation requests and arising issues regarding cultural adaptation

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-314

  Kuliś, Dagmara ^a   Arnott, María ^a   Greimel, Elfriede R ^b   Bottomley, Andrew ^a   Koller, Michael ^c  

^a EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

culture; patient reported outcomes; quality of life; questionnaires; translations

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOMESTICATION; EUROPE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TREND STUDY;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 79959193684     PISSN: 14737167     EISSN: 17448379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erp.11.27     Document Type: Review

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