Clinical factors associated with prescription of a prosthetic limb in elderly veterans

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 900-906

  Kurichi, Jibby E ^a   Kwong, Pui L ^a   Reker, Dean M ^b,c   Bates, Barbara E ^d   Marshall, Clifford R ^e   Stineman, Margaret G ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d STRATTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputation; Elderly; Prosthesis

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB PROSTHESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VETERAN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEG; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 34347336538     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01187.x     Document Type: Article

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