Importance of functional measures in predicting mortality among older hospitalized patients

JAMA

Volumn 279, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1187-1198

  Inouye, Sharon K ^a,c   Peduzzi, Peter N ^a,b   Robison, Julie T ^a   Hughes, John S ^a,b   Horwitz, Ralph I ^a   Concato, John ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032522736     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.279.15.1187     Document Type: Article

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