Geriatric patients improve as much as younger patients from hospitalization on general psychiatric units

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1676-1680

  Snowden, Mark B ^a,c   Walaszek, Art ^b   Russo, Joan E ^a   Comtois, Kate A ^a   Srebnik, Debra S ^a   Ries, Richard K ^a   Roy Byrne, Peter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric psychiatry; Inpatient hospitalization; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; REMISSION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; MENTAL DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6944253640     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52460.x     Document Type: Article

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