Children's quality of life measures
Archives of Disease in ChildhoodPublished 1 October 1997Open access
Christine Eiser
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It is now apparent that statistics based on survival may not accurately reflect the degree to which quality of life is compromised in the longer term, given the incidence of both physical and psychological difficulties reported by some survivors.
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