Psychiatric and medical admissions observed among elderly patients with new-onset epilepsy

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Copeland, Laurel A ^a,b   Ettinger, Alan B ^c   Zeber, John E ^a,b   Gonzalez, Jodi M ^d   Pugh, Mary Jo ^d,e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Neurological Surgery   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPILEPSY; GOVERNMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPILEPSY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 79955112011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-84     Document Type: Article

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