Measuring change in quality of life: Bias in prospective and retrospective evaluation

Value in Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 110-115

  Blome, Christine ^a   Augustin, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

quality of life; recalibration; recall bias; response shift; thentest

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT BIAS; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECALL BIAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELECTION BIAS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TYPES OF ARTICLE; TYPES OF STUDY; VALIDITY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84920768868     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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