Quality of Life (QOL) in Patients with Acromegaly Is Severely Impaired: Use of a Novel Measure of QOL: Acromegaly Quality of Life Questionnaire
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Acromegaly Quality of Life Questionnaire (AcroQoL)
Acromegaly is a chronic disease with an important impact on patients, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). The ability to effectively measure Health Related Quality of Life is central to describing the impacts of disease or treatment upon the patient, therefore the importance of having a disease specific questionnaire for acromegaly. For the development of the AcroQoL questionnaire different...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0021-972X,1945-7197
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2004-1565