Dementia, Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, and Long-Term Mortality

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 396-403

  van der Steen, Jenny T ^a   Mehr, David R ^b   Kruse, Robin L ^b   Ribbe, Miel W ^a   van der Wal, Gerrit ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; follow up studies; nursing homes; palliative care; pneumonia; prognosis; survival rates

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADL DISABILITY; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE RATE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 34347371422     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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