Physician visits, emergency room utilization, and overnight hospitalization in the old-old in Israel: The Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study (CALAS)

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 549-556

  Walter Ginzburg, Adrian ^b,d   Chetrit, Angela ^c   Medina, Chaya ^c   Blumstein, Tzvia ^c   Gindin, Jacob ^a   Modan, Baruch ^c  

^a KAPLAN HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Healthcare utilization; Hospital use; Israelis; Old old

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0035005369     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49112.x     Document Type: Article

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