Predicting the likelihood of emergency admission to hospital of older people: Development and validation of the Emergency Admission Risk Likelihood Index (EARLI)

Family Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 158-167

  Lyon, David ^a   Lancaster, Gillian A ^b   Taylor, Steve ^b   Dowrick, Chris ^b   Chellaswamy, Hannah ^c  

^a Castlefields Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Sefton Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Older people; Predicting emergency admissions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONFUSION; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY ADMISSION RISK LIKELIHOOD INDEX; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; LEG ULCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS; VULNERABLE POPULATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34447291117     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cml069     Document Type: Article

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