Psychometric properties of instruments to measure the quality of end-of-life care and dying for long-term care residents with dementia

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 671-684

  Van Soest Poortvliet, Mirjam C ^a   Van Der Steen, Jenny T ^a   Zimmerman, Sheryl ^b   Cohen, Lauren W ^b   Klapwijk, Maartje S ^c   Bezemer, Mirjam ^d   Achterberg, Wilco P ^e   Knol, Dirk L ^a   Ribbe, Miel W ^a   De Vet, Henrica C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Nursing Home Van Wijckerslooth   (Netherlands)

^d Zorgspectrum ^*  (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dementia; Long term care; Measures; Psychometric properties; Quality of care; Quality of dying

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TERMINAL CARE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84863621561     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-011-9978-4     Document Type: Article

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