Geriatric conditions in acutely hospitalized older patients: Prevalence and One-Year survival and functional decline

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Buurman, Bianca M ^a   Hoogerduijn, Jita G ^b   de Haan, Rob J ^a   Abu Hanna, Ameen ^a   Lagaay, A Margot ^c   Verhaar, Harald J ^d   Schuurmans, Marieke J ^b,d   Levi, Marcel ^a   de Rooij, Sophia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Infection and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALL RISK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYPHARMACY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY CATHETER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WALKING DIFFICULTY; GERIATRICS; HOSPITALIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 81055146912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026951     Document Type: Article

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