Considering the balance: Development of a scale to assess patient views on trade-offs in competing health outcomes

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1331-1336

  Case, Siobhan M ^a   Towle, Virginia R ^b   Fried, Terri R ^a  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

comorbidity; decision making; geriatric assessment and methods; health priorities; quality of life

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

COMORBIDITY; DECISION-MAKING; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT AND METHODS; HEALTH PRIORITIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONNECTICUT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84882249201     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12358     Document Type: Article

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