Effect of method of administration on longitudinal assessment of quality of life in gynecologic cancer: An exploratory study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Gil, Karen M ^a,b   Frasure, Heidi E ^c   Hopkins, Michael P ^b   Jenison, Eric L ^a,b   von Gruenigen, Vivian E ^b,c  

^a AKRON GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SWEAT GLAND TUMOR; WELLBEING; COMPUTER; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; PAPER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; UNITED STATES;

ADNEXA UTERI; ADULT; COMPUTERS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PAPER; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 16344373719     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-3-6     Document Type: Article

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