Decision-making capacity of elderly patients assessed through the vignette method: Imagination or reality?

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-48

  Vellinga, A ^a   Smit, J H ^a   Van Leeuwen, E ^a   Van Tilburg, W ^b   Jonker, C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GZZ   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIGNETTE METHOD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE;

EID: 12344300280     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860512331334059     Document Type: Article

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