Virginia Towle
Biographic Data
| ID | 6637521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Towle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Towle |
| SIGNATURE | TOWLE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion, Risk, and Medical Decision Making at the End of Life
Not all dimensions of religiousness have the same association with willingness to undergo potentially life-sustaining treatment. Seriously ill older, religious patients are not especially predisposed to avoid risk and resist treatment
Testing Measurement Reliability in Older Populations
Supplementation of omnibus statistics by loglinear regression modeling is especially appropriate for aging research because it facilitates tests of marginal homogeneity and comparisons of reliability results for relatively young and old subgroups. Latent class regression analysis is useful for older samples because multifactorial health conditions are often measured in multiple ways and assessment of their reliability can be integrated, granting …
Assessment of Patient Preferences
The WALT measures patients' treatment preferences, assessed in the context of treatment burden and multiple aspects of treatment outcome with sound psychometric properties
Assessment of Patient Preferences
The WALT measures patients' treatment preferences, assessed in the context of treatment burden and multiple aspects of treatment outcome with sound psychometric properties
Religion, Risk, and Medical Decision Making at the End of Life
Not all dimensions of religiousness have the same association with willingness to undergo potentially life-sustaining treatment. Seriously ill older, religious patients are not especially predisposed to avoid risk and resist treatment
Assessment of Patient Preferences
The WALT measures patients' treatment preferences, assessed in the context of treatment burden and multiple aspects of treatment outcome with sound psychometric properties
Testing Measurement Reliability in Older Populations
Supplementation of omnibus statistics by loglinear regression modeling is especially appropriate for aging research because it facilitates tests of marginal homogeneity and comparisons of reliability results for relatively young and old subgroups. Latent class regression analysis is useful for older samples because multifactorial health conditions are often measured in multiple ways and assessment of their reliability can be integrated, granting …
Religion, Risk, and Medical Decision Making at the End of Life
Not all dimensions of religiousness have the same association with willingness to undergo potentially life-sustaining treatment. Seriously ill older, religious patients are not especially predisposed to avoid risk and resist treatment
Medicine (3 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Reliability (semiconductor (2 works) · Statistics (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)