Common and gender specific factors associated with one-year mortality in nursing home residents

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 302-309

  Kiely, Dan K ^a   Flacker, Jonathan M ^b  

^a RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Mortality; Nursing homes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENDER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; PATIENT INFORMATION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036739130     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-8610(05)70545-4     Document Type: Article

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