Functional status after colon cancer surgery in elderly nursing home residents

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 967-973

  Finlayson, Emily ^a,b   Zhao, Shoujun ^b   Boscardin, W John ^b,c,d   Fries, Brant E ^e   Landefeld, C Seth ^c,d   Dudley, R Adams ^a,b  

^a Phillip R Lee Institute of Health Policy Studies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

functional decline; nursing home residents; surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME PATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84861231701     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.03915.x     Document Type: Article

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