Pain and health-care utilization among older men in a veterans care home

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL.2, 2009, Pages

  Peng, Li Ning ^a,b   Lin, Ming Hsien ^a,b   Lai, Hsiu Yun ^a,b   Hwang, Shinn Jang ^a,b   Chen, Liang Kung ^a,b   Lan, Chung Fu ^b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aged; Cognition; Elderly; Health care utilization; Pain

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PAIN; TAIWAN; VETERANS;

EID: 71849093434     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4943(09)70006-8     Document Type: Article

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