One-year health care costs associated with delirium in the elderly population

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-32

  Leslie, Douglas L ^a   Marcantonio, Edward R ^b   Zhang, Ying ^a,c,d   Leo Summers, Linda ^d   Inouye, Sharon K ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38349081525     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.4     Document Type: Article

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