Net Worth Predicts Symptom Burden at the End of Life
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Net worth predicts symptom burden at the end of life.
OBJECTIVES To explore the predictors of symptom burden at the end of life. DESIGN Observational, secondary analysis of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data. SETTING USA. PARTICIPANTS Two thousand six hundred four deceased, older adults. METHODS Multivariate Poisson and logistic regression to explore the relationship between sociodemographic and clinical factors with symptoms. RESULT...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Palliative Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1096-6218,1557-7740
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2005.8.827