Predictors of nursing home admission for older adults hospitalized with heart failure

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-126

  Ahmed, Ali ^a,b,c   Allman, Richard M ^a,b,c   DeLong, James F ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Nursing home admission; Predictors

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GERONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; PATIENT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037371986     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4943(02)00063-8     Document Type: Article

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