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Differences in proxy-reported and patient-reported outcomes: assessing health and functional status among medicare beneficiaries

BACKGROUND: Proxy responses are very common when surveys are conducted among the elderly or disabled population. Outcomes reported by proxy may be systematically different from those obtained from patients directly. The objective of the study is to examine the presence, direction, and magnitude of p...

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Autores principales: Li, Minghui, Harris, Ilene, Lu, Z. Kevin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4534114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26264727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-015-0053-7