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Research in health and quality of life

Resources

 

Instruments

We have used, adapted, translated and/or developed the following instruments:

  • Dutch version of the Brief Hospice Inventory. Contact me for information.
  • Dutch version of the Edmonton Functional Assessment Scale. Contact me for information.
  • Dutch version of the McGill Quality of Life questionnaire. Contact me for information.
  • Dutch version of the Quality of Death and Dying instrument. Contact me for information.
  • Dutch version of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS). Contact me for information.
  • Dutch version of the Palliative care Outcome Scale (POS). Contact me for information.
  • Dutch version of the manual and materials for the Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL). Contact me for information.
  • Dutch version of the Minimal Data Set - Palliative Care version of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI MDS-PC). Contact me for information.

Other resources

  • The website Meetinstrumenten Palliatieve Zorg (in Dutch), which offers information on the quality of palliative care instruments and translated instrument as downloads.
  • Charles Carver's paper on professional writing, aimed at psychologists and other social scientists. The paper was written for the first workshop of Collaborative REsearch And Training in the EHPS (CREATE). CREATE was founded by David French (UK), David Hevey (IR), Efharis Panagopoulou (GR), and myself in 1997. The paper is very useful. Download here.
  • A BMJ paper on structuring discussion sections in scientific papers. Very useful. Download here.