Generic and disease-specific health related quality of life in non-cirrhotic, cirrhotic and transplanted liver patients: A cross-sectional study

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  van der Plas, Simone M ^a   Hansen, Bettina E ^a   de Boer, Josien B ^b   Stijnen, Theo ^a   Passchier, Jan ^a   de Man, Robert A ^a   Schalm, Solko W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 2442667784     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-3-33     Document Type: Article

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