Reliability and validity of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast quality-of-life instrument.
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Summary
The FACT-B is appropriate for use in oncology clinical trials, as well as in clinical practice, and demonstrates ease of administration, brevity, reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change.
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- article
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- 1997-03-01
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Keywords
Breast cancer, Medicine, Quality of life (healthcare), Reliability (semiconductor), Convergent validity
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