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Development of the Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF-36) for Patients with β-Thalassemia Major and β-Thalassemia Intermedia Based on Extended Rasch Analysis

Farshid Sharifia Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences School of Health, Kerman, Iran
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Hossein Safizadehb Department of Community of Medicine, Afzalipour Faculty of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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Abbas Bahrampoura Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences School of Health, Kerman, Iran;c Adjunct Professor of Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
Pages 119-123 | Received 13 Oct 2020, Accepted 16 Mar 2021, Published online: 26 Apr 2021

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