Predictors of nursing home residents' time to hospitalization

Health Services Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 82-104

  O'Malley, A James ^a   Caudry, Daryl J ^a   Grabowski, David C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; hospitalizations; Medicaid; Medicare; nursing homes; time between hospitalizations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; NURSING HOMES; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650994351     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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