Cost of hospital care for elderly at risk of falling

Nursing Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 290-306

  Titler, Marita ^a   Dochterman, Joanne ^b   Picone, Debra M ^a   Everett, Linda ^a   Xie, Xian Jin ^a   Kanak, Mary ^b   Fei, Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BED REST; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG THERAPY; ECONOMICS; FALLING; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WORKLOAD;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; BED REST; COMORBIDITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG THERAPY; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WORKLOAD;

EID: 29744441382     PISSN: 07461739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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