Predictors of in-hospital mortality of older patients admitted for community-acquired pneumonia

Age and Ageing

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 736-741

  Ma, Hon Ming ^a   Tang, Wing Han ^a   Woo, Jean ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Elderly; Mortality; Old people; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; NITROGEN; UREA;

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; AGING; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KATZ INDEX; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80054952532     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afr087     Document Type: Article

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