Differences in the experience of fatigue in patients and healthy controls: Patients' descriptions

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gielissen, Marieke F ^a   Knoop, Hans ^a   Servaes, Petra ^a   Kalkman, Joke S ^a   Huibers, Marcus J ^b   Verhagen, Stans ^a   Bleijenberg, Gijs ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER FATIGUE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NETHERLANDS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 34547752466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-5-36     Document Type: Article

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