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A pilot study among older adults of the concordance between their self-reports to a health survey and spousal proxy reports on their behalf

BACKGROUND: Proxy respondents are frequently used in health surveys, and the proxy is most often the spouse. Longstanding concerns linger, however, about the validity of using spousal proxies, especially for older adults. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the concordance between self-r...

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Autores principales: Wolinsky, Fredric D., Ayres, Lioness, Jones, Michael P., Lou, Yiyue, Wehby, George L., Ullrich, Fred A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5017056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27612571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1734-6