Differences in survival, length of stay, and discharge disposition of older trauma patients admitted to trauma centers and nontrauma center hospitals

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-366

  Scheetz, Linda J ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biobehavioral science   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Discharge; Injury severity; Length of stay; Survival; Trauma; Trauma centers

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW JERSEY; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33644849464     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2005.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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