Subjective dermatology outcomes: how you frame the question may not be that important after all.

Acta Derm Venereol

Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, King's Meadow Campus, University of Nottingham, Lenton Lane, Nottingham NG7 2NR, United Kingdom.

Published: April 2010

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