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A novel, disease-specific quality-of-life instrument for patients with SLE

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology volume 2, pages 132–133 (2006)Cite this article

boxed-textLeong KP et al. (2005) Development and preliminary validation of a systemic lupus erythematosus-specific quality-of-life instrument (SLEQOL). Rheumatology 44: 1267–1276

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The synopsis was written by DD Gladman and Jasmine Farsarakis, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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