Older patients' health-related quality of life around an episode of emergency illness

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 595-603

  Chin, M H ^a   Jin, L ^a   Karrison, T G ^a   Mulliken, R ^a   Hayley, D C ^a   Walter, J ^a   Miller, A ^a   Friedmann, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0032712716     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(99)70161-7     Document Type: Article

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