Is comprehensive geriatric assessment a better 1-year mortality predictor than comorbidity and prognostic indices in hospitalized older adults?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1821-1823

  Martínez Velilla, Nicolás ^a   Ibáñez Beroiz, Berta ^b   Cambra Contin, Koldo ^b   Alonso Renedo, Javier ^a  

^a Universidad Pública de Navarra   (Spain)

^b Atención Primaria Y Promoción de La Salud   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; BARTHEL INDEX; BURDEN OF ILLNESS SCORE FOR ELDERLY PERSON; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; CUMULATIVE ILLNESS RATING SCALE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC INDEX OF COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; INDEX OF COEXISTENT DISEASE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PROGNOSIS; PROGNOSTIC INDEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84885626841     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12488     Document Type: Letter

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