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16262459

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-11-2
pubmed:abstractText
Questionnaires for measuring patients' feelings or beliefs are commonly used in clinical settings for diagnostic purposes, clinical decision making, or treatment evaluation. Raw scores of a patient can be evaluated by comparing them with norms based on a reference population. Using the Pain Cognition List (PCL-2003) as an example, this article shows how clinical questionnaires can be normed with multiple regression of raw scores on demographic and other patient variables. Compared with traditional norm tables for subgroups based on age or gender, this approach offers 2 advantages. First, multiple regression allows determination of which patient variables are relevant to the norming and which are not (validity). Second, by using information from the entire sample, multiple regression leads to continuous and more stable norms for any subgroup defined in terms of prognostic variables (reliability).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1040-3590
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
336-44
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Norming clinical questionnaires with multiple regression: the Pain Cognition List.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Methodology and Statistics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands. gerard.vbreukelen@stat.unimaas.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article