Responsiveness of generic and disease-specific health-related quality of life instruments to venous ulcer healing
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عنوان ژورنال: Wound Repair and Regeneration
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1067-1927,1524-475X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475x.2009.00556.x