Crosscultural measurement equivalence of the health assessment questionnaire II

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1000-1004

  Oude Voshaar, Martijn A H ^a   Glas, Cees A W ^a   Ten Klooster, Peter M ^a   Taal, Erik ^a   Wolfe, Frederick ^b   Van De Laar, Mart A F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENT; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84878529711     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21919     Document Type: Article

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