How to get serious answers to the serious question: 'How have you been?': Subjective quality of life (QOL) as an individual experiential emergent construct

Bioethics

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 272-287

  Bernheim, Jan L ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETIRIZINE; PIRACETAM;

ALLERGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032839975     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8519.00156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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