Do Interviewer and Physician Health Ratings Predict Mortality?
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Do interviewer and physician health ratings predict mortality?: a comparison with self-rated health.
BACKGROUND Despite the serious biases that characterize self-rated health, researchers rely heavily on these ratings to predict mortality. Using newly collected survey data, we examine whether simple ratings of participants' health provided by interviewers and physicians can markedly improve mortality prediction. METHODS We use data from a prospective cohort study based on a nationally repres...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1044-3983
DOI: 10.1097/ede.0b013e3182a713a8