Functional status decline as a measure of adverse events in home health care: An observational study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Scharpf, Tanya Pollack ^a   Colabianchi, Natalie ^a   Madigan, Elizabeth A ^b   Neuhauser, Duncan ^a   Peng, Timothy ^c   Feldman, Penny H ^c   Bridges, John F P ^d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); DEMOGRAPHY; EPISODE OF CARE; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33846601402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-162     Document Type: Article

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