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Content validity for dementia of three generic preference based health related quality of life instruments

2002· article· en· 63 citations· W1255795715 on OpenAlex· 10.1023/a:1014406429385

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.

The three-model screen

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1 of 3 models called this metaresearch. This work is contested: it sits on the field's empirical boundary, and whether it counts depends on which model you asked. It is one of the 51 works in the disagreement dossier.

stratum: aff_core · design weight: 5595.24 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8T1
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: medium

Assesses the content validity of three generic preference-based health-related quality of life instruments for dementia; the object is the measurement instruments that research and evaluation rely on, i.e., a research method and its properties, though a reasonable coder could read this as clinical measurement.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

The work evaluates health-related quality-of-life instruments for dementia rather than research practice.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: medium

Psychometric content validity of QoL instruments for dementia patients is clinical measurement work, not metaresearch.

Abstract

No abstract. This is not a gap in this database — OpenAlex has none either. 23.3% of the frame is in this state, and the screen finds HALF as much metaresearch here, so the absence is a measured bias rather than a missing field.

The record

Venue
Quality of Life Research
Topic
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Field
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Canadian institutions
University of TorontoToronto Rehabilitation InstituteUniversity Health NetworkBaycrest Hospital
Funders
Keywords
RespondentQuality of life (healthcare)DementiaScale (ratio)Quality of Life ResearchPsychologyQuality (philosophy)GerontologyPreferencePublic healthEQ-5DContent validityApplied psychologyPsychometricsMedicineClinical psychologyHealth related quality of lifeStatisticsNursingDiseaseMathematics
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no