Invited Commentary: The Art of Making Questionnaires Better
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Invited commentary: the art of making questionnaires better.
A paper by Schilling et al. (Am J Epidemiol 2006;164:1141-4) addresses a crucial issue for epidemiologists: limited peer access to questionnaires. This limited access hampers the ability to evaluate and improve the questions used by investigators and, in turn, the quality of some of the self-reported data. The authors of this commentary analyzed recent publications in core epidemiology journals...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj348