Six-month mortality risks in long-term care residents with chronic ulcers

International Wound Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 625-631

  Takahashi, Paul Y ^a   Cha, Stephen S ^a   Kiemele, Lester J ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic ulcers; Elderly; Mortality; Nursing home; Pressure ulcers

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ULCER; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; WOUND CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MINNESOTA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSURE ULCER; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 58149377647     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2008.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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