Designs and statistics for assessing responsiveness of questionnaires in health-related quality of life research

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Psychologie

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 125-130

  Schuck, Peter ^a  

^a FBK Spa Medicine Research Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

Designs; Responsiveness; Sensitivity to change; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013569485     PISSN: 09405569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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