Symptom experience and subsequent mortality: Results from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Elliott, Alison M ^a   Hannaford, Philip C ^a   Smith, Blair H ^a   Wyke, Sally ^b   Hunt, Kate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ANAMNESIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCOTLAND; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33845626967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-158     Document Type: Article

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