Prevalence of multimorbidity in medical inpatients: Validation of estimates based on administrative data

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 142, Issue MARCH, 2012, Pages

  Schneider, Florian ^a   Kaplan, Vladimir ^a   Rodak, Roksana ^a   Battegay, Edouard ^a   Holzer, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Multimorbidity; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MULTIMORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861524239     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13533     Document Type: Article

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