Predictors of improvement in health-related quality of life among elderly patients with depression

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-73

  Shmuely, Yochi ^a   Baumgarten, Mona ^a   Rovner, Barry ^a   Berlin, Jesse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035002308     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610201007463     Document Type: Article

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