Beyond survival: What are the outcomes that really matter to our patients?

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-127

  Mussato, Kathleen A ^a  

^a Children's Hospital of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747647434     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951106000035     Document Type: Note

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