Change in functional status predicts complicated clinical course in older adults with infection

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1378-1379

  Rozzini, Renzo ^a   Trabucchi, Marco ^b  

^a Poliambulanza Hospital   (Italy)

^b GERIATRIC RESEARCH GROUP   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; PERFUSION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ITALY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 84863816794     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04016.x     Document Type: Letter

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