Twelve-month outcomes of patients admitted to the acute general medical service at Groote Schuur Hospital

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 549-553

  Stuart Clark, H ^a   Vorajee, N ^a   Zuma, S ^a   van Niekerk, L ^a   Burch, V ^a   Raubenheimer, P ^a   Peter, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; RACE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; AGE; BLOOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMPLOYMENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEPSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; UREA;

EID: 84865153152     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/samj.5615     Document Type: Article

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