Open AccessSurvey into health problems of elderly people: multivariate analysis of concordance between self-report and proxy information
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/29.4.698
Subject(s) - logistic regression , concordance , proband , demography , proxy (statistics) , population , medicine , psychology , gerontology , statistics , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , sociology , mutation , gene
In many cases probands are unable to give information about their own history. Our objective was to compare information given by elderly people on their past and current health and family history of illness with similar information given by a relative, friend or carer.
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