Psychiatric comorbidity and greater hospitalization risk, longer length of stay, and higher hospitalization costs in older adults with heart failure

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1585-1591

  Sayers, Steven L ^a,b   Hanrahan, Nancy ^b   Kutney, Ann ^b   Clarke, Sean P ^b   Reis, Brendali F ^c   Riegel, Barbara ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Economic analysis; Heart failure; Hospitalization costs; Medicare; Psychiatric comorbidity; Race ethnicity; Sex; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHIATRY; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; MENTAL DISORDERS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34848854254     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01368.x     Document Type: Article

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