Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Validation of a short form Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-21) | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Validation of a short form Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey WURSS-21 Bruce Barrett 1 Roger L Brown2 Marlon P Mundt1 Gay R Thomas2 Shari K Barlow1 Alex D Highstrom1 and Mozhdeh Bahrainian1 Address Department of Family Medicine University of Wisconsin-Madison 1100 Delaplaine Ct. Madison WI 53715 USA and 2School of Nursing University of Wisconsin-Madison K6 287 Clinical Science Center Madison WI 53792 USA Email Bruce Barrett - Roger L Brown - rlbrown3@ Marlon P Mundt - Gay R Thomas - grthomas@ Shari K Barlow - Alex D Highstrom - adhighstrom@ Mozhdeh Bahrainian - Corresponding author Open Access Published 12 August 2009 Received 23 December 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 76 doi 1477-7525-7-76 Accepted 12 August 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 76 2009 Barrett et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey WURSS is an illness-specific health-related quality-of-life questionnaire outcomes instrument. Objectives Research questions were 1 How well does the WURSS-21 assess the symptoms and functional impairments associated with common cold 2 How well can this instrument measure change over time responsiveness 3 What is the minimal important difference MID that can be detected by the WURSS-21 4 What are the descriptive statistics for area under the time severity curve AUC 5 What sample sizes would trials .
