Health-related quality of life in urban surgical emergency department patients: Comparison with a representative German population sample

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Neuner, Bruno ^a   Miller, Peter M ^b   Felsmann, Bodo ^a   Weiss Gerlach, Edith ^a   Neumann, Tim ^a   Wernecke, Klaus Dieter ^a   Spies, Claudia ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ILLICIT DRUG; NICOTINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL HEALTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URBAN POPULATION; ADDICTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HOSPITAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 29144469041     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-3-77     Document Type: Article

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