Quality of life measures in health care. II: Design, analysis, and interpretation.

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Published in BMJ on November 07, 1992

Authors

A Fletcher1, S Gore, D Jones, R Fitzpatrick, D Spiegelhalter, D Cox

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London.

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