Interviews or medical records, which type of data yields the best information on elderly people's health status?

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-33

  Wilhelmson, Katarina ^a   Lundin, Eva Rubenowitz ^a   Andersson, Christina ^a   Sundh, Valter ^a   Waern, Margda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Data collection; Epidemiological methods; Health status; Interviews; Medical records

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33645650468     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324637     Document Type: Article

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