Identifying patients at risk of nursing home admission: The Leeds Elderly Assessment Dependency Screening tool (LEADS)

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Slade, Anita ^a   Fear, Jon ^b   Tennant, Alan ^c  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b East Leeds Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RASCH ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AFTERCARE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AFTERCARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33746275895     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-31     Document Type: Article

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