Comparison of the measurement properties between a short and generic instrument, the 5-level EuroQoL Group's 5-dimension (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire, and a longer and disease-specific instrument, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Breast (FACT-B), in Asian breast cancer patients

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1745-1751

  Lee, Chun Fan ^a,b   Luo, Nan ^c   Ng, Raymond ^d   Wong, Nan Soon ^d   Yap, Yoon Sim ^d   Lo, Soo Kien ^d   Chia, Whay Kuang ^d   Yee, Alethea ^d   Krishna, Lalit ^d   Wong, Celest ^a   Goh, Cynthia ^d   Cheung, Yin Bun ^a,b,e  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Discriminative ability; EQ 5D 5L; FACT B; Measurement properties; Non inferiority

Indexed keywords

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGAPORE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; EQUIPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84884414170     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-012-0291-7     Document Type: Article

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