Association between unmet needs for medication support and all-cause hospitalization in community-dwelling disabled elderly people

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 881-886

  Kuzuya, Masafumi ^a   Hirakawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Suzuki, Yusuke ^a   Iwata, Mitsunaga ^b   Enoki, Hiromi ^a   Hasegawa, Jun ^a   Iguchi, Akihisa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Hospitalization; Medication management; Mortality; Unmet need

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF MEDICATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SELF CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 43249122331     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01676.x     Document Type: Article

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