Major depression and emergency medical services utilization in community-dwelling elderly persons with disabilities

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1276-1282

  Lee, Benjamin W ^a   Conwell, Yeates ^b   Shah, Manish N ^a,c   Barker, William H ^a   Delavan, Rachel L ^a   Friedman, Bruce ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Ambulance; Community dwelling; Depression; Disabilities; Emergency medical services

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISABLED PERSONS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUICIDE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 61749104080     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.2063     Document Type: Article

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