Profile and causes of mortality among elderly patients seen in a tertiary care hospital in Nigeria

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 278-283

  Sanya, Emmanuel O ^a   Abiodun, Alfred A ^a   Kolo, Philip O ^a   Olanrewaju, Timothy ^a   Adekeye, Kehinde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Death; diagnosis; elderly patients; in hospital

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENESCENCE; SEPSIS; STROKE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE;

EID: 81755188328     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.87043     Document Type: Article

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