Health-related quality of life among hospitalized older people awaiting residential aged care

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Giles, Lynne C ^a   Hawthorne, Graeme ^b   Crotty, Maria ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH STATUS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VICTORIA;

EID: 68949217870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-7-71     Document Type: Article

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