Quality of life from a patient group perspective

Quality of Life in Child and Adolescent Illness: Concepts, Methods and Findings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 151-179

  Ravens Sieberer, Ulrike ^a   Bullinger, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315800592-15     Document Type: Chapter

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