Predictors of 3-Year Mortality in Institutionalized Nonagenarians: The NonaSantfeliu Study

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 444-446

  Formiga, Francesc ^a   Riera Mestre, Antoni ^a   Chivite, David ^a   Pujol, Ramón ^a   Ferrer, Assumpta ^b   Lopéz Soto, Alfonso ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b Primary Healthcare Centre El Pla CAP I   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BARTHEL INDEX; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LAWTON INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 67649183098     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.03.013     Document Type: Letter

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