Recurrent hospitalisation with pneumonia is associated with higher 1-year mortality in frail older people

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1210-1215

  Ma, H M ^a   Yu, R H Y ^b   Woo, J ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Frailty; Pneumonia; Readmission

Indexed keywords

UREA;

AGE; AGED; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL FRAILTY SCALE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

FRAILTY; PNEUMONIA; READMISSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84887640727     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imj.12258     Document Type: Article

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