Hospital diagnoses, Medicare charges, and nursing home admissions in the year when older persons become severely disabled

JAMA

Volumn 277, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 728-734

  Ferrucci, Luigi ^a,b   Guralnik, Jack M ^b   Pahor, Marco ^c   Corti, Maria Chiara ^b   Havlik, Richard J ^b  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; GERIATRIC CARE; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; NURSING HOME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

EID: 0031043248     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.277.9.728     Document Type: Article

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