Disease profile and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) using the EuroQol (EQ-5D + C) questionnaire for chronic metallic mercury vapor intoxication

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Steckling, Nadine ^a,b   Plass, Dietrich ^c   Bose O'Reilly, Stephan ^a,d   Kobal, Alfred Bogomir ^e   Krämer, Alexander ^b   Hornberg, Claudia ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^d Department of Public Health and Health Technology Assessment   (Austria)

^e Idrija Mercury Mine ^*  (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Disability weight; EuroQol (EQ 5D + C 3L); Expert elicitation; Health related quality of life (HRQoL); Mercury intoxication

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; AIR POLLUTANT;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CHRONIC METALLIC MERCURY VAPOR INTOXICATION; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROQOL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MERCURIALISM; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAIN; PATIENT MOBILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MINING; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84952874497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-015-0388-0     Document Type: Article

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