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How Do Proxy Responses and Proxy-Assisted Responses Differ from What Medicare Beneficiaries Might Have Reported about Their Health Care?
Health Services Research, 05/12/08

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Elliott MN et al. - To Assess proxy respondent effects on health care evaluations by Medicare beneficiaries. One should treat proxy responses to subjective ratings cautiously. Even seemingly innocuous reading, writing, and translation by proxies may influence answers. Spouses may be accurate proxies for the elderly in evaluations of health care.

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