Most studies investigating HRQoL among terminally or critically ill children and adolescents overwhelmingly represents the perspectives of parental and/or health professional proxies [ 21– 25].
We estimated the cost of substituting informal care in favor of formal care provided by professional caregivers (proxy good method) and performed a statistical analysis of the relationship between degree of dependency and number of care hours provided using ordinary least squares regression.
People can prepare for such a situation by discussing their preferences with both health care professionals and proxies (advance care planning).
But it made me feel like a 14-year-old girl: 'I'll be friends with you but not with you.' " Facebook friends grow like kudzu for a variety of reasons, often personal or professional marketing — a proxy for the exchange of business cards (so old school).
It is rated by professional caregivers or proxies.
The QUALIDEM is a dementia-specific QoL instrument, developed for use in residential care and is rated by professional caregivers or proxies.
Finally, Table 1 includes the distribution of individuals' self-reported professional qualifications, providing a proxy for skills.
Instead, we used modified professional dissatisfaction as a proxy for burnout.
For example, if pain was measured with a rating scale for observational behaviours indicating pain and who performed the observation, i.e. a research nurse, a professional or patient's proxy.
However, we did not observe a relationship between health professionals' intentions and our proxy measure of team behaviour.
All self-reported events were reviewed by the investigators and where necessary further information was obtained from the patient, their proxy, healthcare professionals or from medical records.
