Analysis of the construct of dignity and content validity of the patient dignity inventory

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Albers, Gwenda ^a   Pasman, H Roeline W ^a   Rurup, Mette L ^a   de Vet, Henrica C W ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; TERMINAL CARE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIGHT TO DIE; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIGHT TO DIE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958821091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-9-45     Document Type: Article

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