The burden of multiple sclerosis: A community health survey

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Allyson, C Allyson ^a,b   Pohar, Sheri L ^b   Warren, Sharon ^a   Turpin, Karen V L ^a   Warren, Kenneth G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; COGNITION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 40549100702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-6-1     Document Type: Article

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