A scale for measuring patient perceptions of the Quality of End-of-life care and Satisfaction with Treatment: The reliability and validity of QUEST

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 458-470

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a,d   McIlvane, Jessica M ^b   Pasley, Peter M ^a   Rahn, Maike ^c  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL MANHATTAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d St Vincent's Manhattan   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life; Nurses; Palliative care; Physicians; Quality; Reliability; Satisfaction; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SYMPTOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036286177     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3924(02)00409-8     Document Type: Article

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