Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 64, Issue 3 , Pages 301-308 , March 2011

Validation testing of a three-component model of Short Form-36 scores

  • Yoshimi Suzukamo

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health Outcomes and Process Evaluation Research, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan. Tel.: +81-22-717-7338; fax: +81-22-717-7340.
    • ,
  • Shunichi Fukuhara

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health Outcomes and Process Evaluation Research, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Joseph Green

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health Outcomes and Process Evaluation Research, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan
    • Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Mark Kosinski

      Affiliations

    • QualityMetric Inc., Lincoln, RI, USA
    • ,
  • Barbara Gandek

      Affiliations

    • QualityMetric Inc., Lincoln, RI, USA
    • ,
  • John E. Ware

      Affiliations

    • University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA, USA

,Accepted 13 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.04.017

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 64, Issue 3 , Pages 301-308 , March 2011

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