Development of the Stanford Expectations of Treatment Scale (SETS): A tool for measuring patient outcome expectancy in clinical trials

Clinical Trials

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 767-776

  Younger, Jarred ^a   Gandhi, Vanisha ^a   Hubbard, Emily ^a   MacKey, Sean ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLACEBO EFFECT; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; STANFORD EXPECTATIONS OF TREATMENT SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBO EFFECT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUBJECTS;

EID: 84871831127     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774512465064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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