Disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQL) instruments for food allergy: protocol for a systematic review

Clinical and Translational Allergy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-4

  Salvilla, Sarah A ^a   Panesar, Sukhmeet S ^a   Patel, Shyamal ^b   Rader, Tamara ^c   Muraro, Antonella ^d   Roberts, Graham ^e   De Blok, Bertine Flokstra ^f   Dubois, Anthony ^f,g   Sheikh, Aziz ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food allergy; IgE mediated; QOL; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY;

EID: 85006100969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-7022-3-15     Document Type: Article

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