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Research Article

Health-related quality of life of cataract patients: cross-cultural comparisons of utility and psychometric measures

Jae Eun Lee School of Dentistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV,
,
Peter J. Fos Department of Health Systems Management and International Center for Health Social Systems for the Elderly, School of Public Health Tropical Medicine
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Miguel A. Zuniga Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA,
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Peter R. Kastl Department of Health Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA,
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Jung Hye Sung School of Rural Public Health, Texas A M University System, Health Science Center, Bryan, TX
Pages 177-191 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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