Assessment Tools for General Health Care Settings: PRIME-MD, OARS, and SF-36

Health and Social Work

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 230-234

  Van Hook, Mary P ^a   Berkman, Barbara ^b   Dunkle, Ruth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SOCIAL WORK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0030203454     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/21.3.230     Document Type: Article

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