Co-morbidity and functional limitation in older patients underreported in medical records in Nordic Acute Care Hospitals when compared with the MDS-AC instrument [1]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 434-438

  Jónsson, Pálmi V ^a,h   Finne Soveri, Harriet ^b   Jensdóttir, Anna B ^c   Ljunggren, Gunnar ^d   Bucht, Gösta ^e   Grue, Else V ^f   Noro, Anja ^b   Björnson, Jan ^f   Jonsén, Elizabeth ^e   Schroll, Marianne ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Stakes   (Finland)

^c Soltun Nursing Home   (Iceland)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^g Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^h Department of Geriatrics ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; SELF CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33745404352     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj060     Document Type: Letter

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