Outcomes after unplanned admission to hospital in older people: Ill-defined conditions as potential indicators of the frailty trajectory

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2104-2109

  Walsh, Bronagh ^a   Addington Hall, Julia ^a   Roberts, Helen C ^b   Nicholls, Peter G ^a   Corner, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disease trajectories; ill defined conditions; mortality; older people; unplanned hospitalization

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DETERMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84869106024     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04198.x     Document Type: Article

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