Hospital discharges for pneumonia in Finland between 1972 and 1993 in the population aged 65 years or over

Age and Ageing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 269-273

  Säynäjäkangas, Pirjo ^a   Keistinen, Timo ^a   Honkanen, Pekka O ^a,b   Kivelä, Sirkka Liisa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hospital admissions; Length of stay; Old age; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 1842290999     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/26.4.269     Document Type: Article

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