Multilingual translation of the functional assessment of cancer therapy (FACT) quality of life measurement system

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-320

  Bonomi, A E ^a   Cella, D F ^b   Hahn, E A ^b   Bjordal, K ^c   Sperner Unterweger, B ^d   Gangeri, L ^e   Bergman, B ^f   Willems Groot, J ^g   Hanquet, P ^h   Zittoun, R ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b RUSH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^f SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Cross cultural methodology; Quality of life assessment; Translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICK ROLE; TRANSLATING;

EID: 8944243553     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00433915     Document Type: Article

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