Quality of life in lung cancer patients: Does socioeconomic status matter?

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Montazeri, Ali ^a,b   Hole, David J ^b   Milroy, Robert ^c   McEwen, James ^b   Gillis, Charles R ^b  

^a Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ECONOMICS; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL CLASS;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0242352233     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-1-19     Document Type: Article

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