Compliance issues in quality of life assessment: Experiences of two Cancer Research Campaign sponsored groups

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5-7, 1998, Pages 541-546

  Fallowfield, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 2642649520     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19980315/15)17:5/7<541::aid-sim801>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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