Does smoking affect hospital use before death? A comparison of ever- and never-smokers in the last years of life

Medical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 614-619

  McGhee, Sarah M ^a   Schooling, C Mary ^a   Wong, Lai Chin ^a   Leung, Gabriel M ^a   Ho, Lai Ming ^a   Thomas, G Neil ^a   Ho, Daniel S Y ^a   Lam, Tai Hing ^a   Hedley, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acute bed day use; Last years of life; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTER; SMOKING; STATISTICS; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SMOKING; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 44449170988     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181618ef2     Document Type: Article

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