Assessing quality of life in Australian patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-78

  Park, J J ^a   Sullivan, T J ^a,b   Mortimer, R H ^a   Wagenaar, M ^a   Perry Keene, D A ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRIVING ABILITY; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEISURE; MALE; ORBIT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; TELEVISION; VISION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISION;

EID: 0347125003     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.88.1.75     Document Type: Article

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