Integrated specialist assessment of older people and predictors of care-home admission

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1011-1021

  Clarkson, Paul ^a   Venables, Dan ^a   Hughes, Jane ^a   Burns, Alistair ^b   Challis, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AFFECT; AGED; COGNITION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 33744826827     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291706007434     Document Type: Article

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