Health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with growth hormone deficiency or idiopathic short stature - Part 2: Available results and future directions

Hormone Research

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 74-81

  Bullinger, Monika ^a   Kołtowska Häggström, Maria ^c,d   Sandberg, David ^f   Chaplin, John ^e   Wollmann, Hartmut ^g   Noeker, Meinolf ^b   Brütt, Anna Levke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Growth hormone deficiency; Idiopathic short stature; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INSTRUMENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SHORT STATURE; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DWARFISM; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 69249100193     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000232159     Document Type: Short Survey

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