Proxy - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Self- and proxy-report agreement on the Stroke Impact Scale.

4 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine proxy-patient agreement on the domains of the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS), as per the proxy-proxy perspective. METHODS: Stroke patients were prospectively assessed by means of the NIH ... Read more...

The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: There may be ethical issues associated with allowing certain inpatients to vote as some may be cognitively impaired. During the 2007 elections in France, we conducted a prospective observational study on voting among hospitalized ... Read more...

What do community-dwelling people with dementia need? A survey of those who are known to care and welfare services.

13 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The aging society will bring an increase in the number of people with dementia living in the community. This will mean a greater demand on care and welfare services to deliver efficient and customized care, which requires a thorough ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Proxy - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Self- and proxy-report agreement on the Stroke Impact Scale. 4 Aug 2009
• The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study. 30 Jul 2009
• What do community-dwelling people with dementia need? A survey of those who are known to care and welfare services. 13 Jul 2009
• End-of-life issues: difficult decisions and dealing with grief. 30 May 2009
• Randomized controlled trial of SPIRIT: an effective approach to preparing African-American dialysis patients and families for end of life. 30 May 2009
• Healthcare proxies of nursing home residents with advanced dementia: decisions they confront and their satisfaction with decision-making. 19 May 2009
• Objective and subjective quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorders in southern Spain. 29 Apr 2009
• The size of the treatment effect: do patients and proxies agree? 23 Mar 2009
• Medical futility: a paradigm as old as Hippocrates. 27 Feb 2009
• Choosing for another: beyond autonomy and best interests. 27 Feb 2009
• How do-not-resuscitate orders are utilized in cancer patients: timing relative to death and communication-training implications. 29 Nov 2008
• [Is the person of trust a reliable witness in case of organ removal from a deceased person for donation purposes?] 25 Sep 2008
• The influence of caregiver depressive symptoms on proxy report of youth depressive symptoms: a test of the depression-distortion hypothesis in pediatric type 1 diabetes. 4 Sep 2008
• Oral health-related quality of life of children with craniofacial conditions. 30 Aug 2008
• Health care proxy grief symptoms before the death of nursing home residents with advanced dementia. 30 Jul 2008
• Patterns of decision making by wives of patients with life-threatening cardiac disease. 30 Jul 2008
• Association between self-report pain ratings of child and parent, child and nurse and parent and nurse dyads: meta-analysis. 30 Jul 2008
• Doubt and belief in physicians' ability to prognosticate during critical illness: the perspective of surrogate decision makers. 30 Jul 2008
• Proxy ratings from multiple sources: disagreement on the impact of multiple sclerosis on daily life. 8 Jul 2008
• Patient and surrogate disagreement in end-of-life decisions: can surrogates accurately predict patients' preferences? 17 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Proxy'

Definition: A person authorized to decide or act for another person, for example, a person having durable power of attorney.

Descriptor UI: D019727

Alternative terms: Proxy; Proxies; Patient Agent; Agent, Patient; Agents, Patient;

Related Mesh Headings: Treatment Refusal; Third-Party Consent;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.380.600;

History Note: 99