Acromegaly quality of life questionnaire (AcroQoL)

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Badia, Xavier ^a   Webb, Susan M ^b   Prieto, Luis ^c   Lara, Nuria ^a  

^a Health Outcomes Research Europe   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MEASUREMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SPAIN; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACROMEGALY; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPAIN; TRANSLATING;

EID: 4243172405     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-2-13     Document Type: Review

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