Positive impact of Ménière's disorder on significant others as well as on patients: Our experience from eighty-eight respondents

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 550-554

  Manchaiah, V K C ^a,b   Pyykko I ^c   Kentala, E ^d   Levo, H ^d   Stephens, D ^e  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COMPREHENSION; CONVERSATION; DISEASE DURATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; LETTER; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENIERE DISEASE; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SUPPORT GROUP; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84890524696     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/coa.12190     Document Type: Letter

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