Dangers in using translated medical questionnaires: the importance of conceptual equivalence across languages and cultures in patient-reported outcome measures.
Breugelmans
Raoul
R
Department of International Medical Communications, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: rb@imcc-tmu.jp.
D003469:Culture; D007802:Language; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010361:Patients; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating