Relationship between quality of care and functional decline in hospitalized vulnerable elders

Medical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 895-901

  Arora, Vineet M ^a   Plein, Colleen ^b   Chen, Stuart ^b   Siddique, Juned ^a   Sachs, Greg A ^c,d   Meltzer, David O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional decline; Hospitalization; Quality measures

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABLE POPULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 68249160047     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181a7e3ec     Document Type: Article

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