Disability impacts length of stay in general internal medicine patients

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 885-890

  Tan, Chunzhen ^a,b   Ng, Yee Sien ^a,b   Koh, Gerald C H ^c   De Silva, Deidre A ^a,d   Earnest, Arul ^a   Barbier, Sylvaine ^a  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

disability; hospital medicine; internal medicine; length of stay (LOS)

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; HEART FAILURE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INDIAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MOTOR SKILLS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84901684319     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2815-z     Document Type: Article

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