Predicting hospital admission and returns to the emergency department for elderly patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 252-259

  LaMantia, Michael A ^a,b   Platts Mills, Timothy F ^a   Biese, Kevin ^a   Khandelwal, Christine ^a   Forbach, Cory ^a   Cairns, Charles B ^a   Busby Whitehead, Jan ^a,b   Kizer, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Elderly; Emergency medicine; Triage

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; DIASTOLE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRIAGE;

EID: 77951118908     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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