Self-rated health in the unwell elderly presenting to the emergency department

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 196-202

  Wong, Daniel D ^a   Wong, Reginald P C ^b   Caplan, Gideon A ^a,c  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Functional decline; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HAZARD RATIO; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE; TIME; VALIDITY;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF DISCLOSURE;

EID: 34250343838     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2007.00924.x     Document Type: Article

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