Quality of life ratings in dementia care - a cross-sectional study to identify factors associated with proxy-ratings

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gräske, Johannes ^a   Meyer, Saskia ^a   Wolf Ostermann, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BURNOUT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; VERY ELDERLY; ADULT; MIDDLE AGED; PROXY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; NURSING HOMES; PROXY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84924763611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-014-0177-1     Document Type: Article

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