Health-related quality of life and symptom frequency before and after lung transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 320-323

  MacNaughton, Kathleen L ^a   Rodrigue, James R ^a   Cicale, Michael ^a   Staples, E Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Lung transplantation; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PAIN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0031800241     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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