Outcomes of hospitalization: Factors influencing the discharges of African American and white dementia patients

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-38

  Cox, Carole ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CAREGIVERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DEMENTIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030008956     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v23n01_02     Document Type: Article

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