Health problems and health-related quality of life in people with multiple sclerosis

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-78

  Forbes, Angus ^a   While, Alison ^a   Mathes, Lucia ^a   Griffiths, Peter ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DECUBITUS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPLOYABILITY; ENTEROPATHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 32644470068     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215506cr880oa     Document Type: Article

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