Health-related quality of life assessment in dermatology: Interpretation of skindex-29 scores using patient-based anchors

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1318-1322

  Prinsen, Cecilia A C ^a   Lindeboom, Robert ^a   Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^a   Legierse, Catharina M ^a   De Korte, John ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACNE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECUBITUS; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HUMAN; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT; PITYRIASIS LICHENOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN DEFECT; SYMPTOM; ULCER; VARICOSIS;

EID: 77951069310     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2009.404     Document Type: Article

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