Response comparability of family and staff proxies for nursing home residents.

Tennstedt, S L; Skinner, K M; Sullivan, L M; McKinlay, J B · Am J Public Health · 1992

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Abstract

Response comparability on a wide variety of factual and judgmental information regarding nursing home residents was assessed for two proxy groups: family and staff. Family proxies had the most information. Family and staff proxies are not interchangeable. A general lack of response comparability suggests that proxies for nursing home residents should be selected in relation to the type of data needed and the time period of interest.

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