Age and outcome in acute emergency medical admissions

Age and Ageing

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 694-698

  Byrne, Declan G ^a   Chung, Siok Li ^a   Bennett, Kathleen ^a   Silke, Bernard ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Acute illness severity; Age; Elderly; In hospital mortality

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77958604743     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afq114     Document Type: Article

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