The availability of proxy-reports in addition to child reports may be more desirable than reports from the child alone.
With respect to quality of care, the evidence should be treated with caution because, in common with other researchers, we were limited by the availability of proxies for the complexity that is "quality" of health care.
The availability of a proxy report is important as there may be occasions when a child is either unable or unwilling to complete a HRQL measure.
The availability of parent-proxy report scales is essential to obtain complementary information in juvenile diabetes HRQOL matters.
Given the availability of an empirical proxy for changes in contact rates, we relax the assumption of fixed contact rates.
We developed a Cox proportional hazards model to investigate the impact of bed availability (a proxy measure of workload) on LOS adjusting for all other factors that could potentially affect the outcome.
We selected income ratio, education, and availability of basic services as proxy indicators of social and economic status of the residents.
Understanding the fluvial record, however, depends on the availability and interpretation of other sources of proxy data such as pollen spectra, lake levels and ocean cores.
The availability of a validated parent proxy-report measure in FM provides the opportunity to estimate child HRQOL when the child is either unable or unwilling to complete the HRQOL measure.
The availability of a validated parent proxy-report measure in pediatric population health provides the opportunity to estimate child HRQOL when the child is either unable or unwilling to complete the HRQOL measure, or as proxy information when young child self-report scale reliabilities do not achieve the 0.70 standard.
There are some possible ambiguities: differences in the number of single females may proxy the availability of female worker jobs especially in the textile industries (Fan 2003; Huang 2001) or may proxy marriage chances.
