Risk factors for potentially avoidable readmissions due to end-of-life care issues

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 310-314

  Donzé, Jacques ^a,b   Lipsitz, Stuart ^a,b   Schnipper, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TERMINAL CARE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNITED STATES; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BOSTON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; RISK FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899925622     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2173     Document Type: Article

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