Quality of life in Parkinson’s disease patients: validation of the Short-Form Eight-item Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-8) in Taiwan
✍ Scribed by Tzu-Ting Huang; Hua-Yun Hsu; Bi-Hwa Wang; Kang-Hua Chen
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0962-9343
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