Quality of life: A deconstruction for clinicians

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 481-488

  Koller, Michael ^a   Lorenz, Wilfried ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0036795606     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.95.10.481     Document Type: Review

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