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- Tags: Adolescent Adult Aged Aged
A comparison between telephone and bedside consultations given by palliative care consultation teams in the Netherlands: results from a two-year nationwide registration
Tags: 2005, 80 and over Child Child, Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, Backlog, Courtens A, Journal Article, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Kuin A, Methods, methods Male Middle Aged Netherlands Palliative Care/, Patient Care Team, PedPal Lit, Preschool Comparative Study Female Humans Interviews/, Referral and Consultation Registries, Schrijnemaekers V, Telephone, van den Beuken M, van der Linden B, van Zuylen L, Vernooij-Dassen M
Forgoing treatment at the end of life in 6 European countries
Tags: 2005, 80 and over Cause of Death/trends Child Child, Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, Archives Of Internal Medicine, Attitudes, Backlog, Bilsen J, Bosshard G, Faisst K, Journal Article, Miccinesi G, Nilstun T, Non-U.S. Gov't Retrospective StudiesTerminally Ill Treatment Refusal/statistics & numerical data, Norup M, PedPal Lit, Practice Humans Infant Life Support Care, Preschool Comparative StudyDecision Making Europe/epidemiology Female Health Knowledge, statistics & numerical data Male Middle Aged Physician's Practice Patterns, statistics & numerical data Physician-Patient Relations Questionnaires Refusal to Treat, statistics & numerical data Registries, statistics & numerical data Research Support, van Delden JJ, van der Heide A
On the difficulty of neurosurgical end of life decisions
Tags: 2006, 80 and over Brain Injuries/surgery/therapy Child Child, Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, Backlog, Journal Article, Journal of Medical Ethics, Kessler M, PedPal Lit, Preschool Decision Making Ethics Consultation Female Humans Intracranial Hemorrhages/surgery/therapy Male Middle Aged Neurosurgical Procedures/ethics Patient Care Team Prognosis Prospective Studies Withholding Treatment/ethics, Schaller C
The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. A report from the WHOQOL group
Tags: 2004, 80 and over Child Comparative Study Cross-Cultural Comparison Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Male Middle Aged Psychometrics/, 830). Sick and well respondents were sampled from the general population, Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, and to test its main psychometric properties. The WHOQOL-BREF is a 26-item version of the WHOQOL-100 assessment. Its psychometric properties were analysed using cross-sectional data obtained from a survey of adults carried out in 23 countries (n = 11, as reflected by its four domains: physical, as well as from hospital, Backlog, clinical settings and clinical trials. Using data from the WHOQOL-BREF field trials, cross-culturally valid assessment of QOL, discriminant validity and construct validity through confirmatory factor analysis, indicate that the WHOQOL-BREF has good to excellent psychometric properties of reliability and performs well in preliminary tests of validity. These results indicate that overall, instrumentation, item-total correlations, Journal Article, Lotfy M, O'Connell KA, PedPal Lit, Psychological, Quality Of Life, Quality of Life Research, rehabilitation and primary care settings, serving patients with physical and mental disorders and with respect to quotas of important socio-demographic variables. The WHOQOL-BREF self-assessment was completed, Sickness Impact Profile World Health Organization%X Quality of life (QOL) assessments that are easily administered and which do not impose a great burden on the respondent are needed for use in large epidemiological surveys, Skevington SM, social and environment., the objectives of this work are to examine the performance of the WHOQOL-BREF as an integrated instrument, the WHOQOL-BREF is a sound, together with socio-demographic and health status questions. Analyses of internal consistency