Quality of life assessment in patients with multiple sclerosis;Ispitivanje kvaliteta života bolesnika sa multiplom sklerozom

Vojnosanitetski Pregled

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 645-650

  Tepavčević, Darija Kisić ^a   Pekmezović, Tatjana ^a   Drulović, Jelena ^b  

^a Univerzitet u Beogradu   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Multiple sclerosis; Quality of life; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EMPLOYMENT; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; EXPENDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FATIGUE; FATIGUE SEVERITY SCALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MINI MENTAL SCALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE;

EID: 69249089652     PISSN: 00428450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/vsp0908645k     Document Type: Article

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