Chronic comorbidity and outcomes of hospital care: Length of stay, mortality, and readmission at 30 and 365 days

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 171-179

  Librero, Julián ^a,b   Peiró, Salvador ^a,b   Ordiñana, Rosa ^b  

^a Instituto Valenciano de Estudios en Salud Publica IVESP   (Spain)

^b Fundacion Instituto de Investigacion en Servicios de Salud   (Spain)

Author keywords

Administrative databases; Charlson Index; Cormorbidity; In hospital mortality; Length of stay; Readmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN;

EID: 0033015497     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(98)00160-7     Document Type: Article

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