Self rated health and mortality in Chinese institutional elderly persons

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1107-1116

  Leung, Kai Kuen ^a,c   Tang, Li Yu ^b   Lue, Bee Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Global health; Health assessment; Institution; Mortality; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; TAIWAN; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOMES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030687686     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00153-4     Document Type: Article

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