Adjustment of a quality of life evaluation questionnaire to cataract patients;Adaptação de questionário de avaliação da qualidade de vida para aplicação em portadores de catarata

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 293-298

  Ferraz, Ezon Vinícius Alves Pinto ^a,b   Lima, Cláudia Assis ^a   Cella, Wener ^a   Arieta, Carlos Eduardo Leite ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Cataract; Cataract surgery; Public health; Quality of life; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

EID: 9644292728     PISSN: 00042749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27492002000300002     Document Type: Review

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