Editorial: Karnofsky performance status scale

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 147-148

  Friendlander, Arthur H ^a   Ettinger, Ronald L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; DENTAL CARE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS;

AGED; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTAL CARE FOR CHRONICALLY ILL; DENTAL CARE FOR DISABLED; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS;

EID: 70349769592     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2009.00088.x     Document Type: Editorial

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