Does the agreement of patient and physician assessments of health related quality of life in palliative care depend on patient characteristics?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 289-294

  Petersen, Morten Aa ^a   Pedersen, Lise ^a   Groenvold, Mogens ^a,b  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agreement; Palliative care; Patients; Physicians; Proxy; Quality of life; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 34447642363     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216307077694     Document Type: Article

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