Mapping health status measures to a utility measure in a study of nursing home residents with advanced dementia

Medical Care

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 446-451

  Goldfeld, Keith S ^a   Hamel, Mary Beth ^b   Mitchell, Susan L ^b,c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced dementia; cost effectiveness analysis; utility based health status measures

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED DEMENTIA; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861632253     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182407e0d     Document Type: Article

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