Assessment of quality of life indicators among selected patients in a community cancer center

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 241-262

  Frazer, Gregory H ^a   Brown III, Clarence H ^b   Graves, Trudy K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^c ORLANDO HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032057133     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/016128498249051     Document Type: Article

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