Quality of life assessment and reporting in randomized controlled trials: A study of literature published from Japan

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Naito, Mariko ^a   Nakayama, Takeo ^a   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; MEDLINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; JAPAN; PUBMED; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 4243196938     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-2-31     Document Type: Review

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