Postdischarge adverse events for 1-day hospital admissions in older adults admitted from the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-257

  Pines, Jesse M ^a,b   Mongelluzzo, Jillian ^c   Hilton, Joshua A ^d   Hollander, Judd E ^d   Shofer, Frances S ^e   Souder, Jeremy ^f   Synnestvedt, Marie ^g   Weiner, Mark G ^g   Datner, Elizabeth M ^d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPICE PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956036159     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.031     Document Type: Article

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