Measuring quality of life in dyspeptic patients: Development and validation of a new specific health status questionnaire: Final report from the Italian QPD project involving 4000 patients

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 730-738

  Bamfi, Francesco ^a   Olivieri, Antonio ^b   Arpinelli, Fabio ^b   De Carli, Gianfranco ^b   Recchia, Giuseppe ^b   Gandolfi, Lionello ^b   Norberto, Lorenzo ^b   Pacini, Franco ^b   Surrenti, Calogero ^b   Irvine, Sidney H ^b   Apolone, Giovanni ^b  

^a GSK   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DYSPEPSIA; HUMAN; ITALY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DYSPEPSIA; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PEPTIC ULCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0033053341     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(98)00825-9     Document Type: Article

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