Cost of hospital care for older adults with heart failure: Medical, pharmaceutical, and nursing costs

Health Services Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 635-655

  Titler, Marita G ^a   Jensen, Gwenneth A ^b   Dochterman, Joanne McCloskey ^b   Xie, Xian Jin ^c   Kanak, Mary ^b   Reed, David ^b   Shever, Leah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Hospital cost; Interventions; RN staffing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSING; NURSING INTERVENTION; NURSING STAFF; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHARMACY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 41149155223     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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