Geriatrics index of comorbidity was the most accurate predictor of death in geriatric hospital among six comorbidity scores

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1036-1044

  Zekry, Dina ^a   Valle, Bernardo Hermont Loures ^b   Lardi, Claudia ^a   Graf, Christoph ^a   Michel, Jean Pierre ^a   Gold, Gabriel ^a   Krause, Karl Heinz ^a   Herrmann, François R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged; Comorbidity scores; Death; Elderly; Institutionalization; Length of stay

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; COHORT ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWITZERLAND; TRENDS; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77955661334     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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