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Quality of life outcomes in clinical trials and health-care evaluation : a practical guide to analysis and interpretation /

An essential, up-to-date guide to the design of studies and selection of the correct QoL instruments for observational studies and clinical trials. Quality of Life (QoL) outcomes or Person/Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are now frequently being used in randomised controlled trials (RCTs)...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walters, Stephen John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, U.K. : John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Colección:Statistics in practice.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:An essential, up-to-date guide to the design of studies and selection of the correct QoL instruments for observational studies and clinical trials. Quality of Life (QoL) outcomes or Person/Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are now frequently being used in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies. This book provides a practical guide to the design, analysis and interpretation of studies that use such outcomes. QoL outcomes tend to generate data with discrete, bounded and skewed distributions. Many investigators are concerned about the appropriateness of using standa.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 365 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780470686140
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