Health and role functioning: the use of focus groups in the development of an item bank.

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Published in Qual Life Res on January 03, 2010

Authors

Milena D Anatchkova1, Jakob B Bjorner

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. Milena.Anatchkova@umassmed.edu

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