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M Hjerppe

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PubMed2002

Patient-doctor concordance in elderly women's self-reported health and medical records.

OBJECTIVES: To compare the chronic diseases mentioned by elderly women in an interview study with those documented in their respective medical records. METHODS: The prevalence of positive diagnoses, overall agreement, and the kappa-coefficient were calculated for each group of diagnoses. RESULTS: The lowest overall agreement was observed for psychiatric diseases, followed by diseases of the gastrointestinal system. Poor chance-adjusted agreement was found concerning diseases of the gastrointestinal system and diseases of the skin. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that a main reason for discordance was that the elderly women feared "losing face" by reporting some diseases.

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PubMed2000

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