Hospital Readmissions of Elderly Patients Hospitalized with Pneumonia

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 599-603

  Bohannon, Richard W ^a,b   Maljanian, Rose D ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0344851821     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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