Questionnaires - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Prevalence of adult atopic dermatitis among nursing staff in a Taiwanese medical center: a pilot study on validation of diagnostic questionnaires.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, relapsing dermatosis. Previous studies have focused mostly on pediatric patients, and investigations emphasizing adult AD have been limited. OBJECTIVE: We set out to determine the 1-year prevalence ... Read more...

Development and reproducibility of a short questionnaire to measure use and usability of custom-made orthopaedic shoes.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To develop a short and easy to use questionnaire to measure use and usability of custom-made orthopaedic shoes, and to investigate its reproducibility. DESIGN: Development of the questionnaire (Monitor Orthopaedic Shoes) was based on a ... Read more...

Screening for emotional distress in cancer patients: a systematic review of assessment instruments.

11 Oct 2009 Screening for emotional distress is becoming increasingly common in cancer care. This systematic review examines the psychometric properties of the existing tools used to screen patients for emotional distress, with the goal of encouraging screening ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Questionnaires - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prevalence of adult atopic dermatitis among nursing staff in a Taiwanese medical center: a pilot study on validation of diagnostic questionnaires. 30 Oct 2009
• Development and reproducibility of a short questionnaire to measure use and usability of custom-made orthopaedic shoes. 30 Oct 2009
• Screening for emotional distress in cancer patients: a systematic review of assessment instruments. 11 Oct 2009
• Medical questionnaires are copyrighted to ensure that validity is maintained. 29 Sep 2009
• Use of a brief food frequency questionnaire for estimating daily number of servings of fruits and vegetables in a minority adolescent population. 29 Sep 2009
• Sex differences in the relative contribution of social and clinical factors to the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 measure of health-related quality of life in older home care clients. 31 Aug 2009
• Fatigue with systolic heart failure. 30 Aug 2009
• Measuring cultural identity: validation of a modified Cortes, Rogler and Malgady Bicultural Scale in three ethnic groups in New York. 30 Aug 2009
• Cross-cultural generalizability of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ). 30 Aug 2009
• [Diagnostics in child psychiatry must be quality assured] 30 Aug 2009
• Validity and reliability of an oral care practice survey for the orally intubated adult critically ill patient. 30 Aug 2009
• Development and validation of a beverage and snack questionnaire for use in evaluation of school nutrition policies. 30 Aug 2009
• Serbian KINDL questionnaire for quality of life assessments in healthy children and adolescents: reproducibility and construct validity. 26 Aug 2009
• The Male Body Attitudes Scale: A confirmatory factor analysis with a sample of gay men. 9 Aug 2009
• Utility of WHOQOL-BREF in measuring quality of life in sickle cell disease. 8 Aug 2009
• Difference in evaluation of patients with low back pain using the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Score for Back Pain and the Japanese Version of the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire. 5 Aug 2009
• Parenting children with food allergy: preliminary development of a measure assessing child-rearing behaviors in the context of pediatric food allergy. 30 Jul 2009
• The role of language in ethnic identity measurement: a multitrait-multimethod approach to construct validation. 30 Jul 2009
• Validation of the Spatial Hearing Questionnaire. 30 Jul 2009
• Assessing the quality of a web-based learning system for nurses. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Questionnaires'

Definition: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.

Descriptor UI: D011795

Alternative terms: Questionnaires; Questionnaire; Questionnaire Design; Design, Questionnaire; Designs, Questionnaire; Questionnaire Designs;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; standards; utilization;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.750; L01.280.800; N05.715.360.300.695; N06.850.520.308.750;

Online Note: use QUESTIONNAIRES to search QUESTIONNAIRE 1967-72 (as Prov & Cat E heading)

History Note: 73; was in Cat E only 1973-79; was QUESTIONNAIRE 1967-72 (Prov in Cat E only)

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific subject or group (IM)