A proposed method to investigate reliability throughout a questionnaire

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wentzel Larsen, Tore ^a,b,c,d   Norekvål, Tone M ^d,e,f   Ulvik, Bjørg ^e   Nygård, Ottar ^d,f   Pripp, Are H ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies   (Norway)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80053551959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-137     Document Type: Article

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