Acute hospital admissions among nursing home residents: A population-based observational study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Graverholt, Birgitte ^a,b,d   Riise, Trond ^b   Jamtvedt, Gro ^a,c   Ranhoff, Anette H ^b   Krüger, Kjell ^d   Nortvedt, Monica W ^a,d  

^a BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^d Municipality of Bergen ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

homes for the aged; hospitalisation; nursing home; patient admission

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; NORWAY; NURSING HOME; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NORWAY; NURSING HOMES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79957483224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-126     Document Type: Article

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