Why measure quality of life?

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Canadian Medical Association journal

• Publication date

  1983-06-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  PMID 6850460PMCID PMC1875788
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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