Reasons for hospital admissions in dementia patients in Birmingham, UK, during 2002-2007

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 499-505

  Natalwala, Ammar ^a   Potluri, Rahul ^a   Uppal, Hardeep ^b   Heun, Reinhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Hospital admission; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; COLLAPSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 55749112286     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000171044     Document Type: Article

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