Health related quality of life in children with thalassaemia assessed on the basis of SF-20 questionnaire in Yazd, Iran: A case-control study

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 165-169

  Baghianimoghadam, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Sharifirad, Gholamreza ^b   Rahaei, Zohre ^a   Baghianimoghadam, Behnam ^a   Heshmati, Hashem ^c  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

Author keywords

Quality of life; SF 20; Thalassaemia

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053633792     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3640     Document Type: Article

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