Do patients consistently report comorbid conditions over time? Results from the prostate cancer outcomes study

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 391-400

  Klabunde, Carrie N ^a   Reeve, Bryce B ^a   Harlan, Linda C ^a   Davis, William W ^a   Potosky, Arnold L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Health status; Prostate cancer; Survey research

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANXIETY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COLITIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMPHYSEMA; ENTERITIS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; STOMACH ULCER; STROKE; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17144391151     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000156851.80900.d1     Document Type: Article

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