A revised measure of symptom-specific health care use

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1601-1609

  Baker, David W ^a   Shapiro, Martin F ^b   Schur, Claudia L ^c   Freeman, Howard ^d  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Project HOPE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; MORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0032211283     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00215-9     Document Type: Article

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