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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : A promising method for identifying cross-cultural differences in patient perspective: the use of Internet-based focus groups for content validation of new Patient Reported Outcome assessments | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access A promising method for identifying cross-cultural differences in patient perspective the use of Internet-based focus groups for content validation of new Patient Reported Outcome assessments Mark J Atkinson 1 2 Jan Lohs3 Ilka Kuhagen4 Julie Kaufman5 and Shamsu Bhaidani6 Address Worldwide Health Outcomes Research La Jolla Laboratories Pfizer Inc. San Diego CA 92121 USA 2Health Services Research Center USCD School of Medicine La Jolla CA 92093 USA 3Lohs Research Group Qualitative Marketing Research 2170 West Freeman Road Palatine IL 60067 USA 4IKM International Qualitative Marketing Research Ludwig-Ganghoferstr. 33 D-85551 Kirchheim Munchen Germany 5Kaufman Associates 6 Fennwood Drive Atherton CA 94027 USA and 6President and Chief Technical Officer FocusForums Calgary Alberta T3K 6J1 Canada Email Mark J Atkinson - mjatkinson@ Jan Lohs - lohsrsch@ Ilka Kuhagen - Julie Kaufman - kaufmanassoc@ Shamsu Bhaidani - sbhaidani@ Corresponding author Published 22 September 2006 Received 01 June 2006 J. .mr. A. AAA AAA J A I I AA 11A r A r A A A Accepted 22 September 2006 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4 64 doi l477-7525-4-64 This article is available from http content 4 1 64 2006 Atkinson 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 Objectives This proof of concept POC study was designed to evaluate the use of an Internet-based bulletin board technology to aid parallel cross-cultural development of thematic content for a new set of patient-reported outcome measures PROs . Methods The POC study conducted in Germany and the United States utilized .