Maturitas
Volume 61, Issue 1 , Pages 107-121 , September 2008

A menopause-specific quality of life questionnaire: Development and psychometric properties

  • John R. Hilditch

      Affiliations

    • Primary Care Research Unit, Room E349, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Ave., North York, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Jacqueline Lewis

      Affiliations

    • Primary Care Research Unit, Room E349, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Ave., North York, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
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  • Alice Peter

      Affiliations

    • HIV Project Centre, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave., North York, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
    • ,
  • Barbara van Maris

      Affiliations

    • Primary Care Research Unit, Room E349, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Ave., North York, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
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  • Alan Ross

      Affiliations

    • Mature Women Unit, Clinical Associates in Reproductive Endocrinology and Medicine, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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  • Edmée Franssen

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Trials and Epidemiology, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Gordon H. Guyatt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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  • Peter G. Nortona
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  • Earl Dunn

      Affiliations

    • Primary Care Research Unit, Room E349, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Ave., North York, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada

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☆ Reprint of an article originally published in Maturitas, 24(3), pp. 161–175.

PII: S0378-5122(08)00231-4

doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2008.09.014

Maturitas
Volume 61, Issue 1 , Pages 107-121 , September 2008

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