Acute hospital admissions of hospice patients

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1515-1522

  Woolley, Douglas C ^a   Old, Jerry L ^a   Zackula, Rosalee E ^a   Davis, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

^b Hospice Care of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HOSPITAL ADMISSION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOME CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPICE PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HOSPICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84890412515     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2013.0033     Document Type: Article

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