Understanding burden of illness for child growth hormone deficiency
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Understanding Treatment Burden for Children Treated for Growth Hormone Deficiency
OBJECTIVE Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) treatment for children requires growth hormone injections, typically administered daily until the child reaches adult height. Child GHD treatment burden is not well understood and no disease-specific measures exist to assess this burden. The purpose of the study was to explore GHD treatment burden for children and their parents by conducting concept eli...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality of Life Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0962-9343,1573-2649
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-017-1529-1