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- Document 0268
- DOCN M9610268
- TI The role of reluctance to give up life in the measurement of the values
- of health states [see comments]
- DT 9601
- AU Fowler FJ Jr; Cleary PD; Massagli MP; Weissman J; Epstein A; Center for
- Survey Research, University of Massachusetts-Boston; 02125-3393, USA.
- SO Med Decis Making. 1995 Jul-Sep;15(3):195-200. Unique Identifier :
- AIDSLINE MED/96031876
- CM Comment in: Med Decis Making 1995 Jul-Sep;15(3):286-7
- AB Questions that involve willingness to risk or give up life often are
- used to measure the values of health states. In the Boston Health Study,
- interviews with 291 patients who had AIDS included questions about
- health status and current desire for resuscitation, and a series of
- hypothetical questions about desire for life-extending efforts if the
- patients found themselves in undesirable states, such as being
- chronically nauseous or blind. An index, reluctance to give up life was
- made from five such questions. The desire for resuscitation was related
- to current health status, but the general reluctance to give up life was
- not. Desire to be resuscitated was significantly related to current
- health status only when reluctance to give up life was low. For people
- reluctant to say they will give up any life at all, questions that
- involve risking or trading life seem likely to be poor measures of the
- values of health states.
- DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PSYCHOLOGY/THERAPY Adult Choice
- Behavior Female *Health Status Human Life Support Care Male
- *Quality-Adjusted Life Years Questionnaires *Resuscitation
- Risk-Taking Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. Terminal Care JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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