Emergency hospital admissions from care-homes: Who, why and what happens? A cross-sectional study

Gerontology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-120

  Quinn, Terence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care home; Emergency care; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; ORTHOPEDICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL WARD; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCOTLAND; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79951553982     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000314962     Document Type: Article

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