Quantification of health by scaling similarity judgments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Arons, Alexander M M ^a   Krabbe, Paul F M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; ONLINE SYSTEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ALGORITHMS; DEMENTIA; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84896790896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089091     Document Type: Article

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