Liver transplantation provides a return to a satisfactory quality of life (QOL) for the majority of patients in the short to medium term (first 5 years), but there is very little information on the QOL in the longer term and the factors influencing it. We therefore undertook a single-center cross-se
Psychological assessment of quality of life following liver transplantation
โ Scribed by John R. Crossen; Emmet B. Keeffe; Kent G. Benner; Ann Garvey-Schray; Janet Whalen; Joan Mesch
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 719 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1068-9583
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