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| Health values of hospitalized patients 80 years or older | | Author(s) | Joel Tsevat, Neal V Dawson, Albert W Wu |
| Journal title | JAMA, (Journal of the American Medical Association) vol 279, no 5, February 1998 |
| Pages | pp 371-375 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Longevity ; Octogenarians ; Nonagenarians ; In-patients ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Would an older person who is frail and ill prefer living as long as possible over a shorter but healthy life? Such health values are often incorporated into clinical decisions and health care policy when issues of quality versus length of life arise, but little is known about health values of the very old. This American study ascertained the health values and preferences vis-à-vis quantity vs quality of life (known as time trade-off) of a group of 414 in-patients aged 80 to 98 years. In most cases, those who could be interviewed were able to have their health values assessed using the time trade-off technique. Most were unwilling to trade much time for excellent health, but preferences varied greatly. Because proxies and multivariable analyses cannot gauge health values of older in-patients accurately, health values of the very old should be elicited directly from the patient. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980313201 A |
| Classmark | CC: F:59: BGA: BBM: BBR: LF7: 3F: 7T * |
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