Increased mortality among nursing home patients with lower body weights;Verpleeghuispatienten met een lager gewicht grotere kans op overlijden

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 141, Issue 45, 1997, Pages 2184-2188

  Berkhout, A M M ^a   Van Houwelingen, J C ^b   Cools, H J M ^b  

^a Verpleeghuis De Bieslandhof   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME; CHRONIC DISEASE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOMES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0031560143     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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