Heat-related mortality in residents of nursing homes

Age and Ageing

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-252

  Klenk, Jochen ^a,b   Becker, Clemens ^a   Rapp, Kilian ^a,b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER; GERMANY; HEAT; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MORBIDITY; NURSING HOMES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77949364618     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp248     Document Type: Article

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