What really matters: An inquiry into the relative importance of dimensions of informal caregiver burden

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 683-693

  van Exel, N J A ^a,d   Brouwer, W B F ^a   van den Berg, B ^a,c   Koopmanschap, M A ^a   van den Bos, G A M ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CAREGIVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CAREGIVERS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 4544255690     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215504cr743oa     Document Type: Article

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