Do proxies reflect patients' health concerns about urinary incontinence and gait problems?

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Higashi, Takahiro ^a   Hays, Ron D ^b,c   Brown, Julie A ^c   Kamberg, Caren J ^c   Pham, Chau ^c   Reuben, David B ^b   Shekelle, Paul G ^c,d   Solomon, David H ^b,c   Young, Roy T ^b   Roth, Carol P ^c   Chang, John T ^b   MacLean, Catherine H ^c,d   Wenger, Neil S ^b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear of falling; Health related quality of life; Patient proxy agreement; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TELEPHONE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUSTODY; FEAR; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEAR; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROXY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 28544443538     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-3-75     Document Type: Article

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