Measuring quality of life in patients with sleep apnoea: Whose life is it anyway?

Thorax

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 457-458

  Flemons, W W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOOD DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOM; VALIDATION PROCESS; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 2942642488     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2003.016774     Document Type: Editorial

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