Does socioeconomic status affect mortality subsequent to hospital admission for community acquired pneumonia among older persons?

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Vrbova, Linda ^a   Mamdani, Muhammad ^a,b   Moineddin, Rahim ^c   Jaakimainen, Liisa ^b,c   Upshur, Ross E G ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; SAMPLE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21444439597     PISSN: 14775751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-5751-4-4     Document Type: Article

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