Self-perceived Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants at Adolescence
JAMAPublished 14 August 1996
Saroj Saigal
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Direct measures of self-reported health status and utility scores indicated that, as a cohort, adolescents who were ELBW infants suffer from a greater burden of morbidity and rate their health-related quality of life as significantly lower than control teenagers.
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Direct measures of self-reported health status and utility scores indicated that, as a cohort, adolescents who were ELBW infants suffer from a greater burden of morbidity and rate their health-related quality of life as significantly lower than control teenagers. Nevertheless, the vast majority of ELBW respondents view their health-related quality of life as quite satisfactory and are difficult to distinguish from controls.
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