Short-term mortality among older persons hospitalized for pneumonia: Influence of baseline patient characteristics beyond severity of illness

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 211-217

  Ding, Yew Y ^a,b   Abisheganaden, John ^a   Chong, Wai F ^b   Heng, Bee H ^b   Lim, T K ^c  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL HEALTHCARE GROUP   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; COUGHING; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGAPORE; SPUTUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84857739309     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.985     Document Type: Article

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